On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:15:56PM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 03:18:06PM +0100, Tim Phipps wrote: > > OK->find . -name '*.h' -o -name '*.c' | xargs grep -n 257 > > [snip] > > > > I can't help feeling that 257 is the wrong number for all this stuff and > > 256 is the correct number. It might be better to just leave most of > > these things as unsigned shorts or pass XColor's around and convert to > > byte size pieces as late as possible. > > > > 257 is magic in the sense that 255*257 = 65535. I will make the change. > > > /257 will take ages on any processor, /256 will take one cycle on most. > > Is ">> 8" may be faster?
As it requires only a shift operation instead of a division it's definitely faster. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 0721/91374-382 Schlund + Partner AG, Erbprinzenstr. 4-12, D-76133 Karlsruhe -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
