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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] Faster generic_fls
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> Clearly you're not going to make _one_ load to get fls, since having
> a 4GB lookup array for a 32-bit fls would be "somewhat" wasteful.
>
> So the lookup table would probably look up just the last 8 bits.
>
> So the lookup table version is several instructions in itself, doing
> about half of what the calculating version needs to do _anyway_.

Right.

> Including those data-dependent branches.

Well, at least on Alpha, gcc can optimize them all away except one.

Note I'm not really arguing Linux should use a lookup table for fls;
I'm just arguing putting it as default into libgcc for architectures
that don't provide a special version (which aren't particularly many)
isn't stupid. But probably I'm just biased, because I put it there :)

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Falk
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