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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 14:01:04 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: byteswap.h
On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 07:53:09PM +0200, fab10 wrote:
> I had a look at byteswap.h and it seems to me that the code is not
> very efficient. Every function in this header could be translated in
> a single assembly instruction with the gcc intrinsics:
>
> __builtin_bswap16
> __builtin_bswap32
> __builtin_bswap64
>
> Is there a reason to not use these gcc intrinsics?
Because the compile should be (and as far as I know, is) generating
the optimal single instructions from the portable C, without the need
for hackish non-portable intrinsics.
Rich
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