Re: 0 is not a power of 2

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On Wednesday, 20 May 2015 at 09:49:06 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
First version isn't any slow. It's clear and can be optimized 
with gdc:

http://goo.gl/Q7HKcU

Yes, and besides, if one cares about these minor performance 
issues, that most likely will disappear in the pipeline if you 
are a little bit careful about how you arrange your code, then 
one one would be better off letting the compiler take advantage 
of statically available information about size:

@always_inline
... allocate(ulong size){
   if(size==0) return _my_alloc_zero();
   if(is_log2_or_zero(size)) return _my_alloc_log2size(size);
   return _my_alloc_nonlog2size(size);
 }

So basically a version that preserves the tests that the compiler 
most easily can get rid of can lead to faster code even if it in 
isolation has a few extra instructions.