[handy command line for shift in the comments
peter@cordes.ca**20080320085219] {
hunk ./shift.c 1
+/* benchmark with
+for i in {1..10} 496;do \rm shift.o; make CC="gcc -g -Wall -static -DSIZE=$i" shift > /dev/null && sudo nice --5 ./shift 2400000000 5;done
+*/
+
+
}