Re: strcmp is too heavy for its everyday usage...

Denis Zaitsev <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:13:11PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
>> The optimized string functions already do word comparisons when that
>> is possible and advantageous.  The comparisons to extract the
>> ordering vs just equality/nonequality are only on the first
>> nonmatching byte.
>
> But it's an overhead anyway.

Rather neglectable, IMHO.

> Then, it's bad enough for the inlining.

If it's inlined then the compiler should be smart enough to discard the
unneded bits.  If not, and the difference is measurable, then the compiler
should be fixed.

Andreas.

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