Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:29:09 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Assembly string functions in i386 libc Message-ID: <86d4yw649m.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20070712170748.W8789@thor.farley.org> (Sean C. Farley's message of "Thu\, 12 Jul 2007 17\:17\:57 -0500 \(CDT\)") References: <20070711134721.D2385@thor.farley.org> <20070711221338.GC20178@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200707112221.l6BML722062857@apollo.backplane.com> <20070711183217.C2385@thor.farley.org> <86lkdl5osc.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070712161200.I8789@thor.farley.org> <86hco95lg8.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070712170748.W8789@thor.farley.org>
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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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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