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Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:06:19PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
>>Use HZ/2 instead.  GCC doesn't optimize floating point constants to the 
>>same degree it does integers, because it doesn't know what mode 
>>(rounding, precision) the FPU is in.
> 
> 
> Isn't (HZ >> 1) better?

Same thing.  GCC knows that division by a power of 2 is just a shift.

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				Brian Gerst