Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t

Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:18:09PM CEST, I got a letter
where Matthias-Christian Ott <[email protected]> told me that...
> The "git" didn't try store small variables, which aren't referenced, in 
> the processor registers. It also didn't use the size_t type. I corrected 
> a C++ style comment too.

Honestly, I don't think using the register keyword helps anything but to
make the code less readable.

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