On 30 May 1997 01:30:01 -0000 
 source@NetBSD.ORG wrote:

 > On the '020, the simpler code is less than 1% slower.  Surprisingly, it 
 > is ~3% faster on the '040.

Not really surprisingly... I'd guess the smaller function is slightly
faster because of i-cache winningness.

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