Re: [PATCH] backend: compare word-at-a-time in bcTruelen

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Stephen Frost<sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>
> Ah, you may be half right there (see below).  It does appear to be
> assuming that char *s (or s[i == 0]) is aligned, which isn't a
> guarentee (in fact, it might never be right..).  If having it actually
> aligned is an important bit (as opposed to just doing the comparisons in
> larger but possibly unaligned blocks) then that'd make a difference.

On some architectures like intel accessing unaligned ints is just
slow. On others (Alpha and PPC iirc?) it is an immediate bus error.

I would actually be more curious whether we can do th e comparison
without having to pre-scan for the spaces at the end than trying to
opimize that prescan.

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greg
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