This patch significantly improves performance of strstr using a novel
modified Horspool algorithm. Needles up to size 256 use a bad-character
table indexed by hashed pairs of characters to quickly skip past mismatches.
Long needles use a self-adapting filtering step to avoid comparing the whole
needle repeatedly.
By limiting the needle length to 256, the shift table only requires 8 bits
per entry, lowering preprocessing overhead and minimizing cache effects.
This limit also implies worst-case performance is linear.
Small needles up to size 3 use a dedicated linear search. Very long needles
use the Two-Way algorithm.
The performance gain using the improved bench-strstr on Cortex-A72 is 5.8
times basic_strstr and 3.7 times twoway_strstr.
Tested against GLIBC testsuite, randomized tests and the GNULIB strstr test
(https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/tests/test-strstr.c).
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
* string/str-two-way.h (two_way_short_needle): Add inline to avoid
warning.
(two_way_long_needle): Block inlining.
* string/strstr.c (strstr2): Add new function.
(strstr3): Likewise.
(STRSTR): Completely rewrite strstr to improve performance.