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- From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Fast strcmp() wanted.
- Message-ID: <OTTO.90Sep27145643@tukki.jyu.fi>
- Date: 27 Sep 90 12:56:43 GMT
-
- In article <1646@cherry.edc.UUCP> fraser@edc.UUCP (Fraser Orr) writes:
- In article <12145@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> larocque@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David M. LaRocque) writes:
- >After I profiled my C program I discovered that the function
- >strcmp() takes one third of my program's CPU time. I was hoping
- >someone may have written their own version of strcmp() that
- >outperforms the library's function.
-
- One quick dirty thing I did once was to change
- if (strcmp (a,b)==0)
- to
- if (*a==*b && (strcmp(a.b)==0))
-
- I seem to remember a remarkable performance improvement, like about 5
- times faster. Probably due to the fact that the program mainly did
- strcmp and the strcmp was pretty bad.
-
- This should obviously be:
- if(*a==*b && (strcmp(a,b)==0))
- (just in case...)
-
- I'd believe if your compiler is really brain-damaged, this could also help
- a teeny weeny bit:
- if(*a==*b && (!strcmp(a,b)))
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