> There is _never_ any excuse to use a lookup table for something that
> can be calculated with a few simple instructions. That's just
> stupid.
Well, the "few simple instructions" are 28 instructions on Alpha for
example, including 6 data-dependent branches. So I don't think it's
*that* stupid.
But I agree that benchmarking this stand-alone isn't particularly
useful.
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