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>  Is the hand rolled assembler still better than what gcc can produce?
>
>  Warner

Assuming my additional conditional branch, we can save at least an add and
a branch in the comparison loop with the hard rolled assembler over the
"cc -O2 head/lib/libc/string/strncmp.c" code.

If the conditional branch can be deleted, then even better.

--Mark.