Re: [Libevent-users] upcoming 2.1.4-alpha Libevent release

[Ralph Castain <rhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 17, 2014, at 1:44 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Ralph Castain <rhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is this code snippet in a critical path?? If not, I'd be in favor of retaining the obvious code than try to grind thru this optimization
> My lord... You'd think I was talking religion when I only made a
> comment about an observation.
> 
> I officially redact the comment.

Geez, Jeff - nobody is shooting at you. We're just asking questions about your proposal to try and understand it better :-/

I don't even know where this snippet sits...which is why I asked my question.

> 
> Jeff
> 
>> On Mar 17, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:27 PM, james <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 17/03/2014 19:45, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> That's 4 OR's, 1 shift an 1 compare versus 8 compares.
>>>> 
>>>> What on earth is the point of replacing a verbose-but-obvious code sequence
>>>> with a crafty one, to save a trivial time and space, when immediately prior
>>>> we just did an sscanf?  Have you tried timing sscanf?
>>> No, but I can't make sscanf any faster.
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