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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does anyone have a better scm_string_hash ?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:29:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87n0avq7pf.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u153q8yk.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:02:43 +0100")

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> writes:

> Just for kicks, I'm now going to see what kind of code GCC generates
> for h*37 as compared to (h<<5) + (h<<2) + h...

Interesting.  For h = a + (h<<5) + (h<<2) + h we get this sequence
(one line is one machine instruction):

    x = h
    x = x << 5
    a = a + x
    a = a + h*4
    h = a + h

and for h = a + h*37 we get

    x = h + h*8
    x = h + x*4
    h = x + a*1

which is nearly twice as clever...

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-17 16:29 UTC|newest]

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2003-11-17 16:02           ` Does anyone have a better scm_string_hash ? Marius Vollmer
2003-11-17 16:29             ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2003-11-18 20:15               ` Kevin Ryde
2003-11-19  9:04             ` Ludovic Courtès
2003-11-19 15:02               ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-20 15:48 Stephen Compall
2003-11-20 17:29 ` Marius Vollmer
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2003-11-14 18:11 Roland Orre
2003-11-14 20:09 ` Andreas Rottmann

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