On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 03:30:57PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > It returns a pointer to the first non whitespace character, but you > > can just ignore the return value. Normally the first character is > > going to be non whitespace, so it's not even a slow down. > > > > Got it. I guess when you say there is no performance impact, > it's because this kind of functionality is used very sparsely in the code. > (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) If the first character is non-white space then it's just one extra branch statement. And yeah, this tends to not be fast path code is my guess. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
