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Re:Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly... by raphlinus on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:28PM (#15073985)
Good candidate for most evil use of the assumption that char is signed. Incidentally, that's not going to be true on arm[0].

[0]: http://blog.cdleary.com/2012/11/arm-chars-are-unsigned-by-de...

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Re:Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly... by mikeash on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:30PM (#15074002)
Haha, whoops! At least it's easy to fix.
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