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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Improve strcpy: Faster unaligned loads.


On 09/09/2013 03:18 PM, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 07:57:39PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> OndÅej BÃlka <neleai@seznam.cz> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:31:25PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>>> OndÅej BÃlka <neleai@seznam.cz> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> 	* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcpy-sse2-unaligned-new.S: New implementation.
>>>>
>>>> Calling something new is becoming outdated soon.
>>>>
>>> That was because I first wanted to move strcpy-sse2-unaligned to
>>> strcpy-sse2-unaligned-old.S 
>>
>> Calling something old isn't better, "new" old things coming along soon.
>>
> Should I then put it to strncpy-sse2-unaligned.S and add conditionals?
> 

I suggest using a `vN' implementation name to be able to easily
have multiple versions.

Therefore I suggest calling your copy `strcpy-sse2-unaligned-v2.S',
and leave the old one as-is.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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