Improve generic stpcpy performance
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Tue Dec 23 15:50:00 GMT 2014
On 12/22/2014 06:39 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> I noticed while going through some benchmark results that the generic
> stpcpy was substantially slower than the simple_stpcpy in the benchmark
> itself.
>
> So, similar to Wilko's recent strcpy patch, this patch uses the same
> approach for stpcpy.
>
> Note that it does not help to use mempcpy, since that returns a value
> that points beyond the end of the copied data.
>
> OK?
>
> * string/stpcpy.c (__stpcpy): Rewrite using strlen and memcpy.
>
Please check this in. Thanks for making the generic routines faster.
They will all soon depend on a fast memcpy, but that's almost expected.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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