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Subject: Re: Assembly string functions in i386 libc
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"Sean C. Farley" <scf@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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