[committed] libstdc++: Check lengths first in operator== for basic_string [PR62187]

[committed] libstdc++: Check lengths first in operator== for basic_string [PR62187]

[Jonathan Wakely]

Tested powerpc64le-linux, pushed to trunk.

-- >8 --

As confirmed by LWG 2852, the calls to traits_type::compare do not need
to be obsvervable, so we can make operator== compare string lengths
first and return immediately for non-equal lengths. This avoids doing a
slow string comparison for "abc...xyz" == "abc...xy". Previously we only
did this optimization for std::char_traits<char>, but we can enable it
unconditionally thanks to LWG 2852.

For comparisons with a const char* we can call traits_type::length right
away to do the same optimization. That strlen call can be folded away
for constant arguments, making it very efficient.

For the pre-C++20 operator== and operator!= overloads we can swap the
order of the arguments to take advantage of the operator== improvements.

libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog:

	PR libstdc++/62187
	* include/bits/basic_string.h (operator==): Always compare
	lengths before checking string contents.
	[!__cpp_lib_three_way_comparison] (operator==, operator!=):
	Reorder arguments.
---
 libstdc++-v3/include/bits/basic_string.h | 24 ++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/basic_string.h b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/basic_string.h
index a34b3d9ed28..57247e306dc 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/basic_string.h
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/basic_string.h
@@ -3627,17 +3627,10 @@ _GLIBCXX_END_NAMESPACE_CXX11
     operator==(const basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>& __lhs,
 	       const basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>& __rhs)
     _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT
-    { return __lhs.compare(__rhs) == 0; }
-
-  template<typename _CharT>
-    _GLIBCXX20_CONSTEXPR
-    inline
-    typename __gnu_cxx::__enable_if<__is_char<_CharT>::__value, bool>::__type
-    operator==(const basic_string<_CharT>& __lhs,
-	       const basic_string<_CharT>& __rhs) _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT
-    { return (__lhs.size() == __rhs.size()
-	      && !std::char_traits<_CharT>::compare(__lhs.data(), __rhs.data(),
-						    __lhs.size())); }
+    {
+      return __lhs.size() == __rhs.size()
+	       && !_Traits::compare(__lhs.data(), __rhs.data(), __lhs.size());
+    }
 
   /**
    *  @brief  Test equivalence of string and C string.
@@ -3650,7 +3643,10 @@ _GLIBCXX_END_NAMESPACE_CXX11
     inline bool
     operator==(const basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>& __lhs,
 	       const _CharT* __rhs)
-    { return __lhs.compare(__rhs) == 0; }
+    {
+      return __lhs.size() == _Traits::length(__rhs)
+	       && !_Traits::compare(__lhs.data(), __rhs, __lhs.size());
+    }
 
 #if __cpp_lib_three_way_comparison
   /**
@@ -3691,7 +3687,7 @@ _GLIBCXX_END_NAMESPACE_CXX11
     inline bool
     operator==(const _CharT* __lhs,
 	       const basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>& __rhs)
-    { return __rhs.compare(__lhs) == 0; }
+    { return __rhs == __lhs; }
 
   // operator !=
   /**
@@ -3717,7 +3713,7 @@ _GLIBCXX_END_NAMESPACE_CXX11
     inline bool
     operator!=(const _CharT* __lhs,
 	       const basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>& __rhs)
-    { return !(__lhs == __rhs); }
+    { return !(__rhs == __lhs); }
 
   /**
    *  @brief  Test difference of string and C string.
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