On Wed, 31 May 2017, David Daney wrote: > > > The subsection keeps the code for the (hopefully) cold path out of line > > > which should result in a smaller cache footprint in the hot path. > > > > Hmm, yes that would make sense if it did something useful there, but it > > just immediately jumps back to the ll. > > In this case, it could be that the pattern was copied without carefully > examining what was being done. A PAUSE might be in order here. Maciej
