Re: [PATCH] maint: Use logical rather than bitwise operators on bools

[Pádraig Brady]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I did also check the speed with a test program
> (attached) which showed the logical test was a bit faster on my pentium-m.
> Note I compiled without optimization like `gcc -march=pentium-m chcon-test.c`
> so that the loop was actually run, and I got these (averaged) results:
> 
> $ time ./bitwise
> real    0m4.550s
> $ time ./logical
> real    0m4.173s

The above is with bool recurse=false, preserve_root=false in the test prog.
I.E. with if (false && true). Switching them gives a surprisingly faster result:

$ time ./logical
real    0m3.741s