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Improve performance of strncat

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Wilco Aug. 20, 2014, 12:44 p.m. UTC
Hi,

This patch improves strncat performance by using strlen. Strlen has a fast C implementation, so this
will improve performance even on targets which don't have an optimized strlen. It is about twice as
fast as the original strncat in bench-strncat.

ChangeLog:
2014-08-20  Wilco Dijkstra  <wdijkstr@arm.com>

	* string/strncat.c (strncat): Improve performance by using strlen.
---
 string/strncat.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Adhemerval Zanella Aug. 20, 2014, 6:33 p.m. UTC | #1
From what is worth, this is similar optimization I pushed for powerpc
(which some more arch-specific tunings) and looks ok.

PS: try to send patch as inline instead of attachments.


On 20-08-2014 09:44, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch improves strncat performance by using strlen. Strlen has a fast C implementation, so this
> will improve performance even on targets which don't have an optimized strlen. It is about twice as
> fast as the original strncat in bench-strncat.
>
> ChangeLog:
> 2014-08-20  Wilco Dijkstra  <wdijkstr@arm.com>
>
> 	* string/strncat.c (strncat): Improve performance by using strlen.
> ---
>  string/strncat.c |    6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/string/strncat.c b/string/strncat.c
> index 7ac4456..6d29114 100644
> --- a/string/strncat.c
> +++ b
> @@ -33,13 +33,11 @@ STRNCAT (char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n)
>    char *s = s1;
>  
>    /* Find the end of S1.  */
> -  do
> -    c = *s1++;
> -  while (c != '\0');
> +  s1 += strlen (s1);
>  
>    /* Make S1 point before next character, so we can increment
>       it while memory is read (wins on pipelined cpus).  */
> -  s1 -= 2;
> +  s1 -= 1;
>  
>    if (n >= 4)
>      {
> -- 1.7.9.5
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diff --git a/string/strncat.c b/string/strncat.c
index 7ac4456..6d29114 100644
--- a/string/strncat.c
+++ b/string/strncat.c
@@ -33,13 +33,11 @@  STRNCAT (char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n)
   char *s = s1;
 
   /* Find the end of S1.  */
-  do
-    c = *s1++;
-  while (c != '\0');
+  s1 += strlen (s1);
 
   /* Make S1 point before next character, so we can increment
      it while memory is read (wins on pipelined cpus).  */
-  s1 -= 2;
+  s1 -= 1;
 
   if (n >= 4)
     {