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Subject: Re: allow ffs & co. a binary search
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On 08/11/15 04:03, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Why not detect the built-in functions and do the binary search when
> they are not available and leave the original implementation for all
> other sizes?

How can we detect this compile time?

--HPS