Assembly string functions in i386 libc

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Jul 13 09:29:16 UTC 2007


"Sean C. Farley" <scf at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> I never claimed to succeed; I only tried.  The two types of tests I can
> think would be useful were execution of strlen() by itself and within a
> common program.  I had thought I had tested the first type of test.

You did, but it's worthless.

If you wrote a test program that did nothing but add two numbers
together, then profiled that program, would you then conclude that
addition needs optimizing?

DES
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