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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Cc: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Assembly string functions in i386 libc
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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