Efficient STRing CoMPares?

[Stephen Clamage]

peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <1193 at caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave at cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
>> I think you'll have to agree that any professional C compiler worth the name
>> would almost certainly inline *at least* the str???() functions; given an
>> environment where function calls are expensive.

>By "professional" I assume you mean "optimised for running dhrystone", right?

I wouldn't assume so.  Some of the string functions, notably strcpy and
strlen, have shorter bodies than calling sequences.  A compiler writer
would choose to emit these functions inline because the code is both
smaller and faster.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve at taumet.com