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[Andrey Chernov]

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 04:48:44PM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
>  I have the same assembly output.  Inlined __strleneq() ends up being
>  faster on my system than GCC's strlen() when I changed all calls where
>  checkEquals equaled false.  I believe you that it should be faster with
>  GCC's version, but it is not ending up that way on my Athlon XP and
>  Pentium 4 systems running FreeBSD 6.2.
> 
>  There is now a sysenv-strlen.c that I tested the timings.c program in
>  regressions/environment directory.  It keeps showing __strleneq() to be
>  faster.

I wonder how it possible. Your after "if" variant becomes
.L13:
        incl    %eax
        cmpb    $0, (%eax)
        jne .L13
which should be slower in general than gcc ones.

Could you please run some test for just this two functions (without all 
other stuff): strlen() (gcc -O) and inlined __strleneq() for some array of 
different-size strings?

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