Re: [PATCH 0/2] string: Speed up comparison test data initialization

On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM Magnus Lindholm <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Patch 1 updates strcmp and strncmp, including the wide-character tests
> which reuse the same sources. Patch 2 updates strcasecmp and
> strncasecmp while preserving locale-dependent case conversion.
>
> On alpha-linux-gnu, a first-run comparison showed approximate speedups
> of 57x for test-strcmp, more than 46x for test-strncmp, 6.7x for
> test-strcasecmp, and more than 12x for test-strncasecmp. The unpatched
> strncmp and strncasecmp tests reached the 50-minute timeout, while all
> affected tests pass with this series.
>
> Magnus Lindholm (2):
> string: Speed up strcmp test data initialization
> string: Speed up strcasecmp test data initialization

Both of these look great to me and make a huge difference.

Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <[email protected]>