Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!jstewart
From: jstewart@sce.carleton.ca (John Stewart)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: strings statistics site(s) wanted
Message-ID: <770@sce.carleton.ca>
Date: 30 Jan 90 15:55:01 GMT
References: <1990Jan28.041105.23680@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: jstewart@sce.UUCP (John Stewart)
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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I find it pretty amazing that vendors who are selling thousands of workstations
couldn't be bothered to optimize their string functions.  Last year I wrote
an ANSI C runtime library for our mainframe and it was trivial to write all
the string functions in assembler.  On a CISC machine most string functions 
effectively translate down to one or two instructions.  Our Sun-4 still 
blows the mainframe away though simply because it is a much faster machine.

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