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Re: Make condition variables take absolute wakeup time
On Wed, 07 May 2008, der Mouse wrote:
> > These days, does hz >> 2 ever generate better code than hz / 4?
> <kernel.h> says hz is signed, [...]
With unsigned types, I'd hope that a decent compiler would emit the same
code for both, using either a shift or a divide instruction according to
its knowledge of which is faster or smaller. gcc on i386 emits shift
instructions for both source code cases, with or without "-Os".
With signed types, if the value is negative, the result from the shift
is implementation defined, so I'd recommend not using a shift there.
Even if shifting a negative value works in the "obvious" way, (-3 >> 2)
would be -1, while (-3 / 2) would be 0.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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