Subject: Re: [PATCH] add strncmp to PowerPC

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 06:26:06 +0100

>> Do we have any indication that it performs better than the C one ?
>
> I would expect it to, given that the assembler one has two branches in
> the per-byte loop compared to 3 in the C version.

But really, does it matter for strncmp() in the kernel?

Anyway, this asm code has bugs, as do both the current C version in the
kernel, and the code I posted.  We need to do better :-)

Segher