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authorRajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-08-28 12:42:19 +0530
committerRajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-08-28 12:42:19 +0530
commitc8dd67e7c958de04c3783cbea7c384431707b5f8 (patch)
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Speedup first memmem match
As done in commit 284f42bc778e487dfd5dff5c01959f93b9e0c4f5, memcmp
can be used after memchr to avoid the initialization overhead of the
two-way algorithm for the first match.  This has shown improvement
>40% for first match.
Diffstat (limited to 'string')
-rw-r--r--string/memmem.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/string/memmem.c b/string/memmem.c
index 43efaa3fb7..d72b8249e6 100644
--- a/string/memmem.c
+++ b/string/memmem.c
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ __memmem (const void *haystack_start, size_t haystack_len,
       haystack_len -= haystack - (const unsigned char *) haystack_start;
       if (haystack_len < needle_len)
 	return NULL;
+      /* Check whether we have a match.  This improves performance since we
+	 avoid the initialization overhead of the two-way algorithm.  */
+      if (memcmp (haystack, needle, needle_len) == 0)
+	return (void *) haystack;
       return two_way_short_needle (haystack, haystack_len, needle, needle_len);
     }
   else