Nick Piggin: > It's not scaling but just single threaded performance. gcc turns memcmp > into rep cmp, which has quite a long latency, so it's not appripriate > for short strings. Honestly speaking I doubt how this 'long *' approach is effective (Of course it never means that your result (by 'char *') is doubtful). But is the "rep cmp has quite a long latency" issue generic for all x86 architecture, or Westmere system specific? J. R. Okajima -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
