Re: [PATCH 1/1] PARISC: unwind - optimise linked-list searches formodules

[Kyle McMartin]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 01:47:59PM +0300, Phil Carmody wrote:
> Having many dozens of modules, the searches down the linked
> list of sections would dominate the lookup time, dwarfing
> any savings from the binary search within the section.
> 
> A simple move-to-front optimisation exploits the commonality
> of the code paths taken, and in simple real-world tests
> on other architectures reduced the number of steps in the
> search to barely more than 1.
> 

Applied, thanks.

--kyle
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