Re: [Chicken-users] two minor tweaks to runtime.c

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 03:22:06PM +0200, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> While I've been looking at the code I wondered if the C compiler
> will fur sure pull that one test out of the for-loop.
> 
> Maybe it's better no have it there at the first place.
> IMHO the code is not more confusing to read this way and should
> run better in case the C compiler is not smart enough.

I'm firmly opposed to any such change that makes the code
much less readable for very little gain.

Cheers,
Peter
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