[PATCH] powerpc64: strrchr optimization for power8

[Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan]

On 02/20/2017 07:12 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 02/14/2017 06:05 AM, Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan wrote:
>> P7 code is used for <=32B strings and for > 32B vectorized loops are used.
>> This shows as an average 25% improvement depending on the position of search
>> character.  The performance is same for shorter strings.
>> Tested on ppc64 and ppc64le.
> What did you use to test the 25% improvement?

This improvement is seen when compared to power7. Benchtest is
modified to use length from 0 to 400  to find the average for
different lengths.


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Thanks
Rajalakshmi S