Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dataio.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!bright From: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: more questions about efficient C code Message-ID: <691@dataio.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 05:23:25 EDT Article-I.D.: dataio.691 Posted: Fri Jun 28 05:23:25 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 05:26:02 EDT Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 9 In article <474@crystal.UUCP> shekita@crystal.UUCP writes: >I am currently modifying C code, written by someone else, >that is incredibly terse. It's paramount that the code >be fast, so I presume the code is terse for speed. For every case you mentioned, I can think of different compilers where one case is faster in one compiler and the other case is faster for the other compiler. The only way to tell for sure for your compiler is to examine the assembly code output.