Re: [PATCH] Improve strtok(_r) performance

[Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>]

On 28/10/2016 09:35, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> Improve strtok(_r) performance.  Instead of calling strpbrk which calls
> strcspn, call strcspn directly so we get the end of the token without
> an extra call to rawmemchr.  Also avoid an unnecessary call to strcspn after
> the last token by adding an early exit for an empty string.  The result
> is a ~2x speedup of strtok on most inputs in bench-strtok.
> 
> Passes regression tests, OK for commit?

Why not aim for simplicity and just use strtok_r and strtok? I should
be a tail call in most architecture and performance loss should be
minimum.

Either way LGTM. I also found that powerpc64 optimized one performs
worse than this new default one, once you push it in I plan to 
remove it.

> 
> ChangeLog:
> 2015-10-28  Wilco Dijkstra  <wdijkstr@arm.com>
> 
> 	* string/strtok.c (STRTOK): Optimize for performance.
> 	* string/strtok_r.c (__strtok_r): Likewise.
> --
> 
> diff --git a/string/strtok.c b/string/strtok.c
> index 7a4574db5c80501e47d045ad4347e8a287b32191..b1ed48c24c8d20706b7d05481a138b18a01ff802 100644
> --- a/string/strtok.c
> +++ b/string/strtok.c
> @@ -38,11 +38,18 @@ static char *olds;
>  char *
>  STRTOK (char *s, const char *delim)
>  {
> -  char *token;
> +  char *end;
>  
>    if (s == NULL)
>      s = olds;
>  
> +  /* Return immediately at end of string.  */
> +  if (*s == '\0')
> +    {
> +      olds = s;
> +      return NULL;
> +    }
> +
>    /* Scan leading delimiters.  */
>    s += strspn (s, delim);
>    if (*s == '\0')
> @@ -52,16 +59,15 @@ STRTOK (char *s, const char *delim)
>      }
>  
>    /* Find the end of the token.  */
> -  token = s;
> -  s = strpbrk (token, delim);
> -  if (s == NULL)
> -    /* This token finishes the string.  */
> -    olds = __rawmemchr (token, '\0');
> -  else
> +  end = s + strcspn (s, delim);
> +  if (*end == '\0')
>      {
> -      /* Terminate the token and make OLDS point past it.  */
> -      *s = '\0';
> -      olds = s + 1;
> +      olds = end;
> +      return s;
>      }
> -  return token;
> +
> +  /* Terminate the token and make OLDS point past it.  */
> +  *end = '\0';
> +  olds = end + 1;
> +  return s;
>  }
> diff --git a/string/strtok_r.c b/string/strtok_r.c
> index f351304766108dad2c1cff881ad3bebae821b2a0..e049a5c82e026a3b6c1ba5da16ce81743717805e 100644
> --- a/string/strtok_r.c
> +++ b/string/strtok_r.c
> @@ -45,11 +45,17 @@
>  char *
>  __strtok_r (char *s, const char *delim, char **save_ptr)
>  {
> -  char *token;
> +  char *end;
>  
>    if (s == NULL)
>      s = *save_ptr;
>  
> +  if (*s == '\0')
> +    {
> +      *save_ptr = s;
> +      return NULL;
> +    }
> +
>    /* Scan leading delimiters.  */
>    s += strspn (s, delim);
>    if (*s == '\0')
> @@ -59,18 +65,17 @@ __strtok_r (char *s, const char *delim, char **save_ptr)
>      }
>  
>    /* Find the end of the token.  */
> -  token = s;
> -  s = strpbrk (token, delim);
> -  if (s == NULL)
> -    /* This token finishes the string.  */
> -    *save_ptr = __rawmemchr (token, '\0');
> -  else
> +  end = s + strcspn (s, delim);
> +  if (*end == '\0')
>      {
> -      /* Terminate the token and make *SAVE_PTR point past it.  */
> -      *s = '\0';
> -      *save_ptr = s + 1;
> +      *save_ptr = end;
> +      return s;
>      }
> -  return token;
> +
> +  /* Terminate the token and make *SAVE_PTR point past it.  */
> +  *end = '\0';
> +  *save_ptr = end + 1;
> +  return s;
>  }
>  #ifdef weak_alias
>  libc_hidden_def (__strtok_r)
>