|> In <19980918151457.C9740@harvestroad.com.au>, on 09/18/98
|> at 03:14 PM, Ian McKellar <imckellar@harvestroad.com.au> said:
|> >I don't think we need to be to concerned right now, but changing:
|> > if (((year+2) % 4) == 0 && month > 2)
|> >to:
|> > if (((year+2) % 4) == 0 && month > 2 && year != 130) should
|> >fix it.
|> The equivalent code
|> if (!((year+2) & 3) && month > 2 && year != 130) is probably
|> faster. The somewhat expensive mod operator is
|> replaced by a bitwise "and", that is faster on most platforms.
GCC does that conversion by itself.
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