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- From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Fast strcmp() wanted.
- Message-ID: <1990Sep27.151543.8025@ccs.carleton.ca>
- Date: 27 Sep 90 15:15:43 GMT
-
- In article <CEDMAN.90Sep27075013@lynx.ps.uci.edu>
- cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- Hmm... that seems strange. If the first characters of the strings differ,
- most strcmps will not bother to test the rest. All that the above code
- possibly saves you is a function call/return. If this makes such a huge
- difference, then the compiler or your machine's architecture must be pretty
- bad.
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