Re: Faster strlen

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:27:41 +0200

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 03:55:18PM +0200, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> Which is not much different from the code in glibc.
>
> |> On Pentiums this sadistic code is 4 times faster that our :-(.
> |> Really, Gates has his von Braun.
>
> This is common knowlege already for at least 8 years.

My "68030 assembly language reference" by Steve Williams mentioned that
(glibc) algorithm in 1989. It gives a reference to a Usenet article by
Alan Mycroft of Codemist software. The "trick" itself is much, much older
even.

offtopic, yes ;->

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