String Functions for x86-64
Rene Rebe
rene@exactcode.de
Fri Jun 16 17:31:00 GMT 2006
Hi all,
On Saturday 10 June 2006 03:18, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Menezes, Evandro wrote:
> > Ahem, I withdrew STRCMP, strncmp and strlen for now because their
> > performance was similar to the current ones using GLIBC's tests.
>
> Because you apparently didn't managed to do so, I've contacted people at
> Intel so that a blended implementation can finally be written. I expect
> somebody will pop up sometime soon. Until this lead to some results
> nothing is going to happen.
I'm a bit puzzled what "blended" implementation should mean in this context.
Maybe you can elaborate your critique in some words so outstanding issues,
benchmarks and so on can be addressed without the need to wait for some
mysterious action from Intel, if ever?
PS: Yes I know the patch contains whitespace corruption, any critique beyond
what sed could not repair?
Yours,
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