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From: Per Jessen <per@computer.org>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: String comparison for fixed strings
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:30:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C3FCF9.7030102@computer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18115.44021.857573.892223@cerise.gclements.plus.com>

Glynn Clements wrote:

> No, but Stephen mentioned that strcmp() "uses a do/while loop".
> On a modern CPU, branches don't normally take any CPU cycles.

I would have thought everything takes CPU cycles, modern CPU or not?


/Per Jessen

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-16  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-15 11:06 String comparison for fixed strings KhaOsh
2007-08-15 13:18 ` Stephen Kratzer
2007-08-15 14:46   ` Glynn Clements
2007-08-15 17:26     ` Leslie P. Polzer
2007-08-16  1:44       ` Glynn Clements
2007-08-16  7:30         ` Per Jessen [this message]
2007-08-16 18:14           ` Glynn Clements
2007-08-17  7:49             ` Per Jessen
2007-08-17 20:22               ` KhaOsh
2007-08-16  1:54     ` Glynn Clements
2007-08-15 18:51 ` Jesse Ruffin

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