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Date:      Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:02:11 +0100
From:      Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r229415 - head/lib/libvgl
Message-ID:  <4F0BF083.90003@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxg=2BKy-_z_hRpX25U4dXhemha49gbajmvERmtkyBNH%2BYw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201201031947.q03JlXnx039684@svn.freebsd.org> <20120110040219.GE52468@funkthat.com> <CAF6rxg=2BKy-_z_hRpX25U4dXhemha49gbajmvERmtkyBNH%2BYw@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2012-01-10 05:48, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:02 PM, John-Mark Gurney<jmg@funkthat.com>  wrote:
>> Last time I did benchmarking on this ~10 years ago, it was slower to
>> use xor instead of using assignments...
>
> I'd be shocked if the compiler didn't optimize this away to an XCHG.

Even with our ancient gcc 4.2 (on i386):

VGLLine:
	[...]
         movl    12(%ebp), %edx
         movl    16(%ebp), %eax
         movl    $1, -56(%ebp)
         xchgl   %eax, %edx
         movl    %edx, 12(%ebp)
         movl    24(%ebp), %edx
         movl    %eax, 16(%ebp)
         movl    %ecx, %eax
         xchgl   %edx, %esi
         movl    %edx, 24(%ebp)
         movl    -84(%ebp), %edx
         xchgl   %eax, %edx
         movl    %eax, -80(%ebp)
         movl    %edx, -84(%ebp)

With clang, the corresponding local variables seem to have been
optimized away entirely (or rather, moved around).



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