Re: 2.6.19: slight performance optimization for lib/string.c's strstrip()

From: Amit Choudhary
Date: Sun Dec 10 2006 - 22:41:12 EST



> How about this:
>
> char *strstrip(char *s)
> {
> size_t less = 0;
> char c = 0;
> char *e = NULL;
>
> while ((c=*s) && isspace(c))
> s++;
> if (!c)
> return s;
>
> e = s;
>
> while (c=*e) {
> less = isspace(c) ? (less + 1) : 0;
> e++;
> }
>
> *(e-less) = 0;
>
> return s;
> }
>

Well, this is not very efficient because it ends up calling isspace() function for all characters.
So, Ulrich's algo is the fastest.

-Amit



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