Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752580AbbBESdb (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2015 13:33:31 -0500 Received: from mail-ig0-f177.google.com ([209.85.213.177]:58400 "EHLO mail-ig0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751818AbbBESd3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2015 13:33:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1422897162-111998-1-git-send-email-aksgarg1989@gmail.com> <1422938843.2293.4.camel@stgolabs.net> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 10:33:28 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: NXz5rK6tlLRSUcX4gO7hB0uv3FQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/int_sqrt.c: Optimize square root function From: Linus Torvalds To: Anshul Garg Cc: Davidlohr Bueso , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "anshul.g@samsung.com" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 16 On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Hmm. I did that too [..] Side note: one difference in our results (apart from possibly just CPU uarch details) is that my loop goes to 100M to make it easier to just time it. Which means that my load essentially had about three more iterations over nonzero data. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/