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See? Patents do help foster innovation!

See? Patents do help foster innovation!

Posted May 15, 2009 19:43 UTC (Fri) by nevyn (subscriber, #33129)
In reply to: See? Patents do help foster innovation! by nix
Parent article: KSM tries again

Speed improvement: Don't bother hashing it, just use the first 8 bytes of the page as the first pass value. I'd assume that couldn't be patented (given how it's a trivial optimization of what the memcmp() is doing) ... but who knows.


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