Re: Big git diff speedup by avoiding x86 "fast string" memcmp

[David Miller]

From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:53:09 +0200

> You miss understood me. I'm saying that we know the beggining of the
> string is aligned and Nick offered to pad the last long, so surly
> a shift by 2 (or 3) + the reduction of the 12 dec-and-test to 3
> should give you an optimization?

Indeed, we could do something interesting in the case where both
strings are tail padded like that.
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