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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 02:58:48 +0400

> What's the point of having unlikely() attached to every possible if ()?

If can result in smaller code, for one thing, even if it
isn't a performance critical path.