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From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL] kstrdup
Date: 19 Apr 2003 13:45:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8kAuh4Wmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0304181512220.22901@chaos>

root@chaos.analogic.com (Richard B. Johnson)  wrote on 18.04.03 in <Pine.LNX.4.53.0304181512220.22901@chaos>:

> The test for every byte transferred is, quite obviously, correct.
> It is also, quite obviously, non optimum.

Actually, that is very much not obvious.

Especially if you're familiar with architectures where every move has an  
implicit test (typically for zero and sign), and so checking for the zero  
byte during the move is quite obviously the only sane thing to do - the  
version with a count is slower, because the inner loop does more. (Those  
architectures typically don't have a REP-style prefix.)

MfG Kai

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-19 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-18  7:58 Rusty Trivial Russell
2003-04-18  8:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-18 16:20   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-18 16:56     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-18 18:00       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-18 18:44         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-19  4:52         ` Rusty Russell
2003-04-18 18:00       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-18 18:40         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-18 19:24           ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-18 23:37             ` Alan Cox
2003-04-18 19:29           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-19 11:45             ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2003-04-19 20:16             ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2003-04-19  4:14   ` Rusty Russell
2003-04-19  4:48     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-19  8:28       ` Rusty Russell
2003-04-19 12:27       ` Alan Cox
2003-04-19 14:44         ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-04-20  8:05         ` Rusty Russell

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