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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:22:53 +0000
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On 22/03/2025 17:17, Michael S wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:25:43 +0000
> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Or you can save yourself a multiplication
>>
>> n = (n << 2) - (n - 1);
>>
>> potentially shaving entire picoseconds off the runtime.
>>
> 
> Unlikely.
> More likely, your transformation will confuse compiler into generation
> of suboptmal code.

Quite possibly. But does this face look bothered?

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