David Aguilar [off-list ref] writes:
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+ if (sizeof(long) == 8) {
Isn't the whole point of this code to be fast?
This should be a compile-time check... conditionals hurt perf.
Depends on how good your compiler is, no? The above if () selects based
on a constant expression, so on 64-bit archs with a good compiler, there
won't be a jump instruction nor a single opcode for the else clause.