Re: optimalisation for strlcpy (lib/string.c)

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Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> Like the other patch (by that other person), I think it is faster to not
> do a strlen first.

Debatable.  You've replaced a call to the highly-optimized memcpy function
with a byte-by-byte copy.  It's probably a wash performance wise (have you
benchmarked?) and is certainly less clear.

-Mitch
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