Re: While we're at it

On 03/31/2010 11:35 PM, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 00:27, Hugo Monteiro<[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> i'm going to take the ride about "why did DJB did it like that" to ask
>> something (one of many) that has been bothering me for a while now.
>>
>> Could someone explain why did DJB use 4 equal if lines inside the cicle in
>> str_len.c ? Wouldn't the use of a single line accomplish exactly the same
>> thing?
>>      
> speed :) it makes 1/4th of the jumps that way
>
>    


That was my guess also, but then another question pops into my mind.

Why 4, and not more then? Is 4 the an average of something? Bare in mind 
we're talking about strings and not only words.

R's,

Hugo Monteiro.

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