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- From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Fast strcmp() wanted.
- Message-ID: <1966@sixhub.UUCP>
- Date: 29 Sep 90 20:55:31 GMT
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- In article <1990Sep27.151543.8025@ccs.carleton.ca> dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll) writes:
-
- | 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.
-
- If the test of the first character saves a procedure call, then no
- matter how good the compiler is it will be faster not to do the call.
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