On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> Something like :
>
> [PATCH] : Use reciprocal divides in sprintf()
Try this on Core 2, and I suspect that you'll find that the hardware is
actually *faster* than doing the shift/test, function call and the
two multiplies.
> Using reciprocal divides permits to change each divide by two multiplies,
> less
> expensive on current CPUS.
Are you sure?
Linus
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