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Re: [PATCH] small update for strlen, strnlen, use less cpu instructions

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> This is not a valid patch submission. Please see
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches.

I resent the patch an hour ago based on that document, thanks for
pointing this out.
I need to know if the patch is in good shape now, thanks

>
> Anyway, why do you think your patch makes strlen() better?
> Now strlen() increments a variable for each character it faces, hence
> it will consume more cycles.

you can look at the output of objdump -d to see why, also the assembly
snippet send by another person make this clear.
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Re: [PATCH] small update for strlen, strnlen, use less cpu instructions Luke Skywalker <lukes357@gmail.com> - 2015-06-16 21:00 +0200
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