Re: [Patch, mips] Faster strcmp for mips

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Steve Ellcey <sellcey@mips.com> wrote:
>
> I have created an optimized strcmp routine for MIPS and would like to check
> it in.  I verified it by running 'make check' and I also ran 'make bench'
> to check the performance.  This function is slightly slower then the current
> generic strcmp for strings that are not aligned, but much faster when strings
> are aligned because it will then load and compare either 2, 4, or 8 bytes at a
> time.
>
> This means it could be loading bytes beyond the end of the strings being
> compared but it looks like other architecture specific strcmp functions
> are also doing this optimization and the newlib version of strcmp also does
> this.
>
> OK to checkin?
>
> I have attached the original and new bench-strcmp.out files in case anyone
> wants to compare the old and new strcmp performance results.
>
> Steve Ellcey
> sellcey@mips.com
>
>
> 2013-11-14  Steve Ellcey  <sellcey@mips.com>
>
>         * sysdeps/mips/strcmp.c: New.
>
>

Doesn't seem that this was ever committed?