linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add strncmp to PowerPC

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Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:03:46 +1100
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add strncmp to PowerPC

Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:

> Do we have any indication that it performs better than the C one ?

I would expect it to, given that the assembler one has two branches in
the per-byte loop compared to 3 in the C version.

Paul.
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