Re: [PATCH] memchr (trivial) optimization

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Aug 23 2007 - 21:03:40 EST


Matt Mackall wrote:
> 6e: 38 08 cmp %cl,(%eax)
> 70: 74 07 je 79 <memchr3+0x1b>
> 72: 40 inc %eax
>
It's a bit gross that the compiler is using inc here rather than lea or
add, but still...

Er, something's spending 30% of its time in memchr? This is not the
code to fix.

J
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