Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:55:04 -0800 | From | Mitchell Blank Jr <> | Subject | Re: optimalisation for strlcpy (lib/string.c) |
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Folkert van Heusden wrote: > Like the other patch (by that other person), I think it is faster to not > do a strlen first.
Debatable. You've replaced a call to the highly-optimized memcpy function with a byte-by-byte copy. It's probably a wash performance wise (have you benchmarked?) and is certainly less clear.
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