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Comment on Duff's Device – The C Speed Hack From 1983

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The Wikipedia version is simplified, but it bears mentioning that as written, it's going to be slower than the trivial version for most N's on 1983 compilers and systems. Fixed:

   register n = (count + 7) >> 3;
   switch (count - (n << 3))
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