Re: [AArch64] Optimized memcmp

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>]

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On Jun 29 14:32, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> This is an optimized memcmp for AArch64.  This is a complete rewrite
> using a different algorithm.  The previous version split into cases
> where both inputs were aligned, the inputs were mutually aligned and
> unaligned using a byte loop.  The new version combines all these cases,
> while small inputs of less than 8 bytes are handled separately.
> 
> This allows the main code to be sped up using unaligned loads since
> there are now at least 8 bytes to be compared.  After the first 8 bytes,
> align the first input.  This ensures each iteration does at most one
> unaligned access and mutually aligned inputs behave as aligned.
> After the main loop, process the last 8 bytes using unaligned accesses.
> 
> This improves performance of (mutually) aligned cases by 25% and 
> unaligned by >500% (yes >6 times faster) on large inputs.
> 
> ChangeLog:
> 2017-06-28  Wilco Dijkstra  <wdijkstr@arm.com>
> 
>         * newlib/libc/machine/aarch64/memcmp.S (memcmp): 
>         Rewrite of optimized memcmp.

Pushed.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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