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Re: PATCH: Optimize memcmp for ia32

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H. J. Lu wrote:

> I don't think anyone will be happy to run the current glibc on anything
> less than Pentium Pro.

That's unfortunately not true,


> We can investigate how often it is called in gcc. But it is used by
> some applications and my patch will help them.

We can?  You must know what kind of string length etc are used to write
improvements.  If you don't have the data your "improvements" might be
bad for all the interesting cases.

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â Ulrich Drepper â Red Hat, Inc. â 444 Castro St â Mountain View, CA â
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