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Subject: Re: Assembly string functions in i386 libc
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On Friday 13 July 2007 05:29:09 am Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote:
> "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.
>=20
> You did, but it's worthless.
>=20
> 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?

Um, des, he's asking to _remove_ the assembly optimization on i386 and just=
=20
use the C version that other archs use.  Unless there is a compelling reaso=
n=20
to keep the asm versions I agree that the C version should just be used=20
instead.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin