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Re:Do binary files contain more 1s or 0s? by fla on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:41PM (#21517945)
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Re:Do binary files contain more 1s or 0s? by joezydeco on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:43PM (#21517970)
You can skip the lookup on a zero and do the dereference on a non-zero value.
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Re:Do binary files contain more 1s or 0s? by fla on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:47PM (#21518015)
You can, but that’ll cost you one extra branch, for nothing ;)
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Re:Do binary files contain more 1s or 0s? by joezydeco on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:46PM (#21518512)
Sorry, was coming from an ARM perspective. Conditional execution is fun.
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