Re: [PATCH]micro optimization of kcalloc

From: Benjamin LaHaise
Date: Mon Mar 20 2006 - 10:37:28 EST


On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:33:29PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> The likely case is passing constants. Without inlining precisely the
> likely case cannot be optimised.

That's what __builtin_constant_p() is for.

-ben
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