On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 05:34:03PM -0800, Xin Li wrote: > Did you benchmarked the change? Changes like this has to be done very > carefully since it's possible that the extra time spent on addition > and subtractions, when multiple by the length of the "long" string, > may actually defeat the benefit of one less byte worth memory compare > because the effect of CPU's data cache.
More importantly, if the input was originally aligned, the additional byte is ~free. Joerg _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
