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Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 22:01:53 +0200
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] lib/random32.c: Randomize timeout to the millisecond,
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On 06/08/2014 02:42 PM, George Spelvin wrote:
>> Note, when you talk about efficiency here, this is called once every
>> 40+ secs ... ;)
>
> Agreed, in this case the code size saving (avoid a function call) is the
> main benefit.  And I prefer to avoid inefficiency on general priinciples,
> if it's not serving some other goal.

Hm, don't think it will make much of a difference.
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