[PATCH 3/6] C-language equivalents of include/asm-*/bitops.h

Ian Molton spyro at f2s.com
Thu Jan 26 10:25:34 EST 2006


Russell King wrote:

> This code generates more expensive shifts than our (ARMs) existing C
> version.  This is a backward step.
> 
> Basically, shifts which depend on a variable are more expensive than
> constant-based shifts.

arm26 will have the same problem here.




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