strcmp is too heavy for its everyday usage...

Denis Zaitsev zzz@anda.ru
Thu Jan 8 01:36:00 GMT 2004


On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:13:11PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:

> The optimized string functions already do word comparisons when that
> is possible and advantageous.  The comparisons to extract the
> ordering vs just equality/nonequality are only on the first
> nonmatching byte.

But it's an overhead anyway.  Then, it's bad enough for the inlining.
And then, where is such a strcmp in GLIBC?



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