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Subject: Re: [PATCH] streq()
From: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>
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Am Mit, 2002-09-25 um 13.45 schrieb Russell King:

> Small problem - you need to find the length first.  Which means you need
> to scan each string, and use the smaller.

In most cases one of the strings is constant and thus the length known=20
at compiletime. I have no idea whether we are allowed (in kernel space)
to read beyond the end of a string, iff we are we could simply use the
fixed length.

> Wouldn't it be faster just to iterate over both strings at the same time
> only once?

Time has shown that the obvious solution is often not the fastest one.
:) Though in this case it really might be.=20

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Servus,
       Daniel

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