Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:21:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Assembly string functions in i386 libc Message-ID: <200707112221.l6BML722062857@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20070711134721.D2385@thor.farley.org> <20070711221338.GC20178@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Long ago I decided that strlen() was simply not in the critical path
for virtually any program. A few nanoseconds here or there is not
going to result in any noticeable improvement for any program other then
a benchmark designed to test strlen(). It isn't worth the effort to
optimize.
-Matt
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