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Re: [knotwell@f5.com] Re: [PATCH] Re: startup speed (or lack thereof)
- To: knotwell at f5 dot com, Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe at calvados dot zrz dot TU-Berlin dot DE>
- Subject: Re: [knotwell@f5.com] Re: [PATCH] Re: startup speed (or lack thereof)
- From: Dirk Herrmann <dirk at ida dot ing dot tu-bs dot de>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:48:10 +0100 (MET)
- cc: Guile Mailing List <guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
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