[BusyBox] Re: [BusyBox-cvs] busybox/editors sed.c,1.167,1.168

[Glenn McGrath]

On Sun, 16 May 2004 13:40:48 +0200
Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org> wrote:
 
> Read access of char variables is done as a 32 bit read and a "and"
> with a mask on allmost any arch. Archs with supports 8bit reads like
> i386 gives you longer opcodes and horrible long execution times
> compared to 32 bit access.

I would have expected the compiler to optimise it on a per architecture
basis.


Glenn