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[dewar@gnat.com]

<<      - avoid this trick with '-Os', may be also with '-O2', because speed
        increase is very little, zero or below zero. Brnach prediction
        seems to work very well.
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Branch prediction is not much use for forward jumps not in a loop, so I don't
understand your statement here. Certainly the rearrangement of jumps that
GCC 3 does is in some cases a big win, so this needs careful analysis.