Re: [PATCH] add strncmp to PowerPC

From: Segher Boessenkool
Date: Wed Mar 05 2008 - 00:26:52 EST


Do we have any indication that it performs better than the C one ?

I would expect it to, given that the assembler one has two branches in
the per-byte loop compared to 3 in the C version.

But really, does it matter for strncmp() in the kernel?

Anyway, this asm code has bugs, as do both the current C version in the
kernel, and the code I posted. We need to do better :-)


Segher

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