Landing: cee53ed42c75
Project / Subsystem
gcc / wide-int
Date
2026-08-10
Author
Kael Andrew Alonzo Franco
Commit
cee53ed42c753a0c936e005b7dd15f029ca34da7
Source
github
Perf win
Yes
Breaking
No
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- headline
- wide-int: Use return 1 instead of return len.
- tldr
- Optimizes wide-integer canonization by returning a constant 1, potentially speeding up C++ optimizers.
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- Kael Andrew Alonzo Franco
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- • optimization
- • wide-int
- • C++
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- date
- 2026-08-10T00:00:00.000Z
This commit simplifies the canonize function in wide-int.cc by directly returning 1 instead of the variable len. Since len is known to be 1 in this context, this change is a minor optimization that can contribute to faster C++ compilation times by removing a redundant variable lookup.