Re: [PATCH] Reduce the number of expensive division instructions done by _parse_integer()

[David Howells]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Bah. The constant is hoisted out of the loop on anything that has
> enough registers - and "cannot generate constants" is almost
> universally associated with "fair amount of registers".

True.

Do you want me to attach my patch description to your patch, or do you want to
do that?

David
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