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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:07:20 +0300
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t
Cc: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, git@vger.kernel.org,
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Hi,

On 4/25/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Honestly, I don't think using the register keyword helps anything but to
> make the code less readable.

Indeed. The use of 'register' keyword blindly can actually make the
generated code _worse_ as it taking away one register from the
compiler's register allocator.

                        Pekka
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