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Re: [knotwell@f5.com] Re: [PATCH] Re: startup speed (or lack thereof)


On 21 Mar 2000, Jost Boekemeier wrote:

> Dirk Herrmann <dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de> writes:
> 
> > > !       for(i=len;i--;)
> > >   	if (((unsigned char *) name)[i] != tmp[i])
> > > ! 	  goto trynext; 
> 
> > relies on memcmp to perform the character field comparison? 
> 
> Removing goto's is okay, but note that Aubrey intentionally compares
> from the right to the left.  Using memcmp will be a little bit slower.

Thanks for your answer.  However, since symbols will be replaced anyway, I
am not going to fuss with it.

Best regards
Dirk Herrmann


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