Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 11:07:24PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> What do you think about the following patch:

No.

> In 90. division was an expensive operation, today not any more. I
> would prefer to let it to be optimized by a compiler, not by a human
> for a special or an old hardware with expensive arithmetic operations.

That's plainly wrong. A division is still slow and horribly slow on
quite a few CPUs we care about.

Joerg