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Re: [PATCH v3 00/18] Improve generic string routines

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> > This contains lot of glaring issues, main ones are:
> > strnlen - quite ineffective as testing vs zero is faster than generic c.
> > Could be trivially improved by inlining memchr. 
> 
> The 08/08 is using memchr instead (just no inline it)...

Which is a good idea on the general principles of architectures being able 
to add optimized versions of a few common functions, such as memchr, and 
have those used internally by the less common functions, such as strnlen.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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