Would be interesting to see tests done on UTF-8 strings as this is the
only type that Java supports.
On a side note, Merry Christmas everyone!
Ivan.

On Dec 25, 4:52 am, Michael Gardner <gardne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 24, 2010, at 8:19 PM, David Nolen wrote:
>
> > ((long double) end-start) / 1000.0
>
> I don't think this math is correct. The units for the values returned by 
> mach_absolute_time() are 
> CPU-dependent:http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa2004/qa1398.html
>
> Using gettimeofday() on my 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo Macbook, I get minima of ~3400 
> microseconds for unoptimized C, ~800 microseconds for -O2.
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/time.h>
>
> unsigned count_chars(char const * s) {
>     unsigned count = 0;
>     while (*s++)
>         if (*s != ' ')
>             ++count;
>     return count;
>
> }
>
> int main(int argc, char** argv) {
>     char const * s = "This is a really long stringThis is a really long 
> stringThis is a really long stringThis is a really long stringThis is a 
> really long stringThis is a really long stringThis is a really long 
> stringThis is a really long stringThis is a really long stringThis is a 
> really long stringThis is a really long stringThis is a really long 
> stringThis is a really long stringThis is a really long stringThis is a 
> really long stringThis is a really long stringThis is a really long 
> stringThis is a really long stringThis is a really long stringThis is a 
> really long string";
>     unsigned i, j;
>     struct timeval start, end;
>
>     for (j = 0; j < 10; ++j) {
>         gettimeofday(&start, 0);
>         for (i = 0; i < 1000; ++i)
>             count_chars(s);
>         gettimeofday(&end, 0);
>         printf("%u us\n", (unsigned)(1000000 * (end.tv_sec - start.tv_sec) + 
> (end.tv_usec - start.tv_usec)));
>     }
>
>     return(0);
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> }

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