[m-rev.] for review: fix mantis bug #559, step 2

[Zoltan Somogyi]

2022-05-06 15:12 GMT+10:00 "Julien Fischer" <jfischer at opturion.com>:
> The rest looks fine -- thanks for looking into this so promptly.

You are welcome. I followed all your suggestions.

I would like to ask you to benchmark the effect of this change as well,
maybe with fewer optimination levels (say just 2 and 5), but with more
repetitions, say 12 or 16 instead of 6. The reason I ask is that the technique
I used for disjunctions is also applicable to conjunctions and if-then-else
chains. So if the overall effect of this change is a speedup, then it would
make sense to try to apply it to them as well, though the average length
of if-then-else-chains may be too low for the startup&teardown overhead
to be amortized by faster iterations. (Iterations that move a lot up
and then a lot down on the stack will have more cache misses than
versions of those iterations that always use the same few stack frames.)

Zoltan.