Both you and tptacek understand what it is I want. Apparently the musl author is on the same page too. Very good.
But note my goal is not to achieve "better" than what someone else has written.
My goal is having more control over the result and to practice assembly language programming. And... to eliminate some of the "overhead" I see.
Big difference between my handwritten assembly and what gcc generates. Regardless of which is "better" one is more succinct.
Perhaps I drifted a bit from the original blog post; I think the author may have just been trying to find a speed increase, rather than chasing after some sort of minimalist aesthetic.
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Both you and tptacek understand what it is I want. Apparently the musl author is on the same page too. Very good.
But note my goal is not to achieve "better" than what someone else has written.
My goal is having more control over the result and to practice assembly language programming. And... to eliminate some of the "overhead" I see.
Big difference between my handwritten assembly and what gcc generates. Regardless of which is "better" one is more succinct.
Perhaps I drifted a bit from the original blog post; I think the author may have just been trying to find a speed increase, rather than chasing after some sort of minimalist aesthetic.