[PATCH] Make strcmp optimized for SSE2 with unaligned load/store as default

Zack Weinberg zackw@panix.com
Tue Aug 25 21:04:00 GMT 2015


On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 03:34:33PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> That's not an objection _to eliminating the difference between libc
>> and ld.so_.  It's a quibble about the default (for both). Ondřej
>> really should have brought that up in its own thread.
>>
> No, this is proper thread as it concerns selecting implementation in
> ld.so. Previously there was a slow one without sse2 that we want to
> change so it would need same rationale, even if trivial.

I understood Roladn to be saying that "We no longer need this to be
different from libc" is sufficient justification for HJ's original
change, and that was in message #1 on this thread.

zw



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