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Subject: Re: String Processing Instruction
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Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 02:30:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 30 02:30:14 1987
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In article <230@winchester.mips.UUCP>, mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
> We did some rummaging and profiling of code, and were astonished to find
> the actual amount of time spent in the str* routines to be pretty small.

Probably a major reason for this is that programmers use in-line code for
lots of string operations in C.  The early UN*X code was pretty efficient.
People who learned their coding styles from reading early UN*X code simply
don't include calls to the str* routines inside tight loops.
				Kenneth Almquist