Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: A replacement string package for PC's
Message-ID: <1989Oct10.171420.6624@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <20136@princeton.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 89 17:14:20 GMT

In article <20136@princeton.Princeton.EDU> nfs@notecnirp.UUCP (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
>... The recent Dhrystone
>1.1 posting by ast shows a 40% increase in Dhrystone rating on my 
>machine with these routines (only strcpy() and strcmp() are used there).

One should not put too much emphasis on this.  This is a known bug in
Dhrystone -- it puts too much weight on the string functions and uses
them in atypically favorable ways.  Many system suppliers find that it
is well worth their while to optimize the bejesus out of their string
routines for the sake of Dhrystone numbers.
-- 
A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu