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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] Remove single-store shortcut
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 14:42:14 -0700
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On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Luc Van Oostenryck
<luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Fix this by removing this single-store shortcut and leave
> all the work for the general case which handle this
> situation quite well (and/but set those variables to 0).

Ack.  The single-store case really was always a hack to make simple
things look simple.

Doing proper optimization is the right approach, no question about it.

                   Linus