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Re: K6 optimization && compiler builtins


On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 11:36:17PM +0100, Ronald Wahl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At the moment I'm playing with the string/memory routines of libc which
> are written in assembler. On a K6 (somtimes PPro also, Pentium not testet)
> I can get a performance gain of 10-40% (!). Now my question: If I use one
> of the string/memory functions (e.g. memcmp) in my programs, which one
> will be uses - the compiler builtin or the one in the libc? If the builtin

I guess the compiler builtins will be used (Why not try it out?),
btw, I have a version of strlen that's about 30% faster on
pentiums than the one currently in gcc.

anybody wants to hack it into i386.md?


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