Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:24:00 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Quicker erand48 patch
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> FYI, I've implemented a faster erand48 from the suggestions from Dieter.
[snip]
> diff -r1.1 rand48.c
> 4c4
> <  * Copyright (C) 1999 Martin Str<94>mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>.
> ---
> >  * Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Martin Str@"omberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>.

Please use "diff -c" or "diff -u".  Without the switches, the diffs
are very hard to read, and applying them is much more prone to
failures (due to other changes that shift lines).

More to the point, did you time the two versions, and if so, what were
the results?