Andy Green wrote: > Point taken, it was the bit about hardware where less is more expensive > than equality I don't believe, considering this is almost totally > synchronous hardware that runs Linux rather than raw gates.
There was a real-life example of a platform where some comparisions were more expensive than a test for equiality, but I don't remember which one. Probably not a terribly important one, but then, Linus can sometimes get carried away when he sees a chance to save some cycles ;-) - Werner
