stepanov on i686-pc-linux-gnu

[Joe Buck]

> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 06:24:39PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> > .L262:
> > 	faddl	(%eax)
> > 	leal	8(%eax), %edx
> > 	cmpl	%ecx, %edx
> > 	movl	%edx, %eax
> > 	jne	.L262
> > 	movl	%edx, 8(%ebp)
> > 
> > Ouch!  The iterator is being retrieved and stored to memory.
> 
> Well, sorta.  That last move is outside the loop.

Sigh.  I'm so used to looking at Sparc assembly with the delayed
branch.

Nevertheless, there are two memory accesses in the loop, and only
one is needed.  In principle, all the Stepanov tests should generate
equivalently fast code.