Re: [PATCH 01/11] resource: Add System RAM resource type

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 09:52:37AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
[..]
> Now, imagine you have to do this pretty often. Which is faster: a
> strcmp() or an int comparison...?

Aside from "System RAM" checks I don't think any of these strcmp
usages are in fast paths.

> Even if this cannot be changed easily/in one go, maybe we should at
> least think about starting doing it right so that the strcmp() "fun" is
> phased out gradually...

Sure, but I really don't find use of strcmp() that onerous in slow paths.
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