Re: Assembly string functions in i386 libc

"Sean C. Farley" <scf@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Matthew Dillon wrote:
Long ago I decided that strlen() was simply not in the critical
path for virtually any program.
Since strlen() is used in every program directly or indirectly through
libc, I thought it was beneficial to make it faster.

The first rule of optimization is: don't do it.
The second rule of optimization is: don't do it yet.
The third rule of optimization is: don't optimize what you haven't measured.

Can you show us an actual application that spends a significant part of
its run time in strlen()?

DES
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