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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Improving bcmp et al
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I notice that FreeBSD/Alpha still uses the standard (portable) bcmp()
implementation in libkern.  Combined with gcc-2.7.2, this gives very
poor performance.  

I recently wrote a somewhat improved bcmp() that provides a substantial
speed-up: 3-5 times with gcc2.7.2, twice as fast again with DEC's cc.
Further details are in my post to -hackers on Thu Feb 25 10:35:36 1999 +1100

Peter


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