John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com> writes:
> We can do about as well simply by changing the nibble lookup to a byte
> lookup, which works on every compiler and architecture:
I didn't attempt to verify your patch, but I do prefer addressing
this issue in a machine-independent fashion. I also like the brevity
of the patch (though it could do with some comments perhaps, not that
the existing code has any).
regards, tom lane