From: "Daniel_Marjamäki" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 08:47:48 +0100
> So you mean that in this particular case it's faster with a handcoded
> comparison than memcmp? Because both key1 and key2 are located at
> word-aligned addresses?
> That's fascinating.
Essentially, yes.
However, I wonder. GCC should be able to see this also, and
if it expands the memset() inline the code emitted should be
very similar.
It is something to investigate on a few cpu types, for sure.
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