[LLVMdev] LLD: representation of a power of two value

[Sean Silva]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:

> It's not a big deal, but it always annoyed me a bit when I hit it, so I'll
> bring it up here.
>
> LLD represents an alignment X as log2(X) in some places and just X in
> other places. It's a bit confusing. Because I always think alignments in my
> mind in terms of 1, 2, 4, 8, ..., instead of 2^1, 2^2, 2^3, ..., I'd like
> to propose to always use real values.
>
> Any objections?
>

The only theoretical objection I can imagine is that you can use much less
storage for holding the log2(X). But right now that isn't causing us any
problems it seems.

-- Sean Silva


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