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On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Konovalov, Vadim Vladimirovich (Vadim) wrote:
> > >Additionally, there are several places where local temporary
> > variables assigned just to make further assignment less verbose.
> > >("buf" in PerlIOStdio_read function is an example).
So? What's wrong with being less verbose? Clarity counts too,
though obviously different authors have different views of
clarity.
> Okay.
> Here is a tiny-optimization patch. Although patch is obvious, I checked for perl to pass tests after applying it.
[ patch snipped ]
This is rather pointless since any decent optimizer ought to do the same
for you anyway. I checked. Both gcc and Sun's cc produced identical code
for the two versions.
If you think the changed code is somehow "cleaner", that's fine and not
worth arguing about.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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