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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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David Schwartz wrote:
> 
>         By the way, has anybody actually benchmarked these macros to see if they
> make any difference. I did a few quick inexact benchmarks on test code and
> found that in most cases there was no difference and in some cases code was
> made worse.

likely/unlikely set the branch prediction values to 99% or 1%
respectively.  If this causes the code generated to perform less
optimally than without, I'm sure the gcc guys would be -very- interested
to hear that...

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