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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Repalce strncmp by memcmp
2010/11/29 Pavel Vasilyev <pavel@pavlinux.ru>:
>
>    This patch replace all strncmp(a, b, c) by  memcmp(a, b, c).
>
> I test on x86_64 (AMD Opteron 285).
>
> #include <string.h>
> char *A = "0000";
> void test_memcmp(void) {
>        memcmp(A, "TEST", 4);
> }
> void test_strn(void) {
>        strncmp(A, "TEST", 4);
> }
> # gcc -c -O2 test.c
> # objdump -d test.o
> ...
>
> 0000000000000020 <test_strncmp>:
>  20:   f3 c3                   repz retq
>  22:   66 66 66 66 66 2e 0f    data32 data32 data32 data32 nopw
> %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>  29:   1f 84 00 00 00 00 00
>
> 0000000000000030 <test_memcmp>:
>  30:   f3 c3                   repz retq
>
> Wow, minus  one commad :)
>

Wow, good, I test that patch ... can't see any performance
improvements. but... works fine. and mem* generally better than str*
one, right?
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