On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But even in the absence of such further simplification, the smaller > constant thing likely makes it worth it. Almost all architectures have > an easier time with smaller constants, and doing > > (a >> 24) & 255; > > is often noticeably more efficient than > > (a & 0xff000000) >> 24; > > just because of the constant issue. That totally make sense. Thanks Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
