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minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoIt really is kinda hard to justify wrapping a << 16 | b in a function.
minus-squareMysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoYep, these kind of wrapper functions actually hurt kernel readability and add unecessary call overhead - in critical kernel paths every instruction counts.
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-210 days agoEspecially given that one actually tells you where the values get placed.
It really is kinda hard to justify wrapping
a << 16 | bin a function.Yep, these kind of wrapper functions actually hurt kernel readability and add unecessary call overhead - in critical kernel paths every instruction counts.
Especially given that one actually tells you where the values get placed.