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Re: [PATCH] malloc: remove __builtin_expect

From: Yury Gribov <y dot gribov at samsung dot com>
To: Joern Engel <joern at purestorage dot com>, "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh dot poyarekar at gmail dot com>, Joern Engel <joern at purestorage dot org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:56:49 +0300
Subject: Re: [PATCH] malloc: remove __builtin_expect
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On 01/26/2016 03:24 AM, Joern Engel wrote:

From: Joern Engel <joern@purestorage.org>

It was disabled anyway and only served as obfuscation.  No change
post-compilation.

FYI I've witnessed significant improvements from (real) __builtin_expectin other projects.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PATCH] malloc: remove __builtin_expect
  - From: Jörn Engel
- Re: [PATCH] malloc: remove __builtin_expect
  - From: Steven Munroe

References:
- malloc: performance improvements and bugfixes
  - From: Joern Engel
- [PATCH] malloc: remove __builtin_expect
  - From: Joern Engel

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