Fast strcmp() wanted.

[Fraser Orr]

In article <12145 at crdgw1.crd.ge.com> larocque at jupiter.crd.ge.com (David M. LaRocque) writes:
>After I profiled my C program I discovered that the function
>strcmp() takes one third of my program's CPU time.  I was hoping
>someone may have written their own version of strcmp() that
>outperforms the library's function.

One quick dirty thing I did once was to change

	if (strcmp (a,b)==0)
to
	if (*a==*b && (strcmp(a.b)==0))

I seem to remember a remarkable performance improvement, like about 5
times faster.  Probably due to the fact that the program mainly did
strcmp and the strcmp was pretty bad.

Worth considering anyway.

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