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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Clearing venti arena during install
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:57:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5032f8591800c63e04a9a8b18c1b63ea@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac08f785796f92ca07123b65fd5d4335@collyer.net>

> In the common (real-life) case, the test of the first word suffices.
> The word-at-a-time scan can be made to run fairly fast, especially if
> you have the option of first putting a non-zero word just after the
> buffer, so that no explicit bounds test is necessary in the loop.

Or temporarily unzeroing the last word in the buffer.

Russ



  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-27  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-26 21:04 bakul+plan9
2006-03-27  0:09 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-27  0:23   ` bakul+plan9
2006-03-27  0:30     ` Russ Cox
2006-03-27  0:33     ` Russ Cox
2006-03-27  0:52       ` geoff
2006-03-27  0:57         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-03-27  1:23           ` Bakul Shah
2006-04-17  9:57 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell

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