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Subject: Re: String Handling -- Incompetence of run-time libraries
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Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 19:39:15 EST
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Keywords: instruction set architectures, strcpy
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As a brief addition to my previous posting, when I used my own strcpy and strcmp
routines, the Dhrystone rating of my microVAX II (cc -O, 4.3BSD) jumped from
1000 (library strcpy, strcmp) to 1400 (my strcpy, strcmp).  Dhrystone seems to
be highly sensitive to the quality of the library's string-handling routines.

					Ehud Reiter
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