On Fri, 21 April 2006 13:30:30 -0700, Vernon Mauery wrote:
>
> A simple NULL check is faster
> than a function call and then a simple NULL check.
I am not sure whether this is still true for any non-ancient CPUs.
The cost of a branch misprediction is in the order of _many_
predictable instructions. That makes conditionals more expensive than
they used to be. And the cost of branch mispredictions keeps
increasing.
Jörn
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-- Wally
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