Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 05:27:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 05:27:01 -0500 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:57860 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 05:27:00 -0500 Message-ID: <3E23E82E.26E1833A@aitel.hist.no> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:36:30 +0100 From: Helge Hafting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.55 i686) X-Accept-Language: no, en, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Kellett CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? -> goto example References: <1042404503.1208.95.camel@RobsPC.RobertWilkens.com> <20030112224829.GA29534@alpha.home.local> <1042419236.3162.257.camel@RobsPC.RobertWilkens.com> <20030113013133.GA31596@alpha.home.local> <20030113161045.GA19270@groucho.verza.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alexander Kellett wrote: [...] > As much as I absolutely love the utility of this > piece of code you really do have to admit that it > _is_ rather difficult to understand :) > It is hard for everybody - until we get used to it. Then it is just another normal thing. :-) > Is it so flawed of me to expect that some day this > code could be rewritten in an extremely clean > fashion and compilers made to do the work that > was put in to make this fast? This is not flawed - but we actually need that compiler to exist, and become _common_ before replacing hand-optimizations with clean code. Feel free to join the gcc team and make the world better... Helge Hafting - 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/