1.3.1 *is* slower

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:55:03PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> It is true that 1.3.1 is slower than 1.1.8.  I benchmarked it on my NT 2K
>> dual processor 300MHZ system.
>> 
>> A config.status --recheck in my gdb build directory takes a minute 1 second
>> with 1.3.1, 52 seconds with 1.1.8, and 48 seconds with 1.1.5.
>> 
>> Not a very encouraging trend.
>> 
>> Anybody have any ideas?  This is usually a sign of an extra disk open somewhere
>> but I don't see anything obvious.
>> 
>
>Hey Chris, what do your timings give you now?  Just curious if my
>strrchr patch improved it.

As I mentioned, I'm working on an asm version of strrchr to complement the asm version
of strchr.  The timings show something like a 5 - 6% improvement with the asm version.
I haven't tried with the newlib version.

I'm very glad that you found this bottleneck.

cgf