From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: either I'm stupid or GCC once again has random behaviour
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On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 21:21:11 -0500, "Alexei A. Frounze"
<dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:

>PAGE_SIZE is indeed a constant, but who cares? is it hard to put into ECX a
>variable instead of a constant?

It's a lot harder to unroll something a variable number of times
without Duff's device (which may cause performance problems on K6).