On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> This seems fine to me, especially
> because it lets us compare macaddr using simple 3-way unsigned int
> comparisons, which isn't otherwise the case.
Out of idle curiosity, I decided to generate disassembly of both
macaddr_cmp_internal(), and the patch's abbreviated comparator. The
former consists of 49 x86-64 instructions at -02 on my machine,
totaling 135 bytes of object code. The latter consists of only 10
instructions, or 24 bytes of object code.
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Peter Geoghegan