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From: Per Jessen <per@computer.org>
Subject: Re: String comparison for fixed strings
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:30:01 +0200
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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