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On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 12:37 PM Jessica Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 8 Feb 2021, at 19:15, Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The branch main has been updated by mjg:
> >
> > URL: 
> > https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=af366d353b84bdc4e730f0fc563853abc338271c
> >
> > commit af366d353b84bdc4e730f0fc563853abc338271c
> > Author:     Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]>
> > AuthorDate: 2021-02-08 17:01:48 +0000
> > Commit:     Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]>
> > CommitDate: 2021-02-08 19:15:21 +0000
> >
> >    amd64: implement strlen in assembly
> >
> >    The C variant in libkern performs excessive branching to find the
> >    non-zero byte instead of using the bsfq instruction. The same code
> >    patched to use it is still slower than the routine implemented here
> >    as the compiler keeps neglecting to perform certain optimizations
> >    (like using leaq).
> >
> >    On top of that the routine can is a starting point for copyinstr
> >    which operates on words instead of bytes.
> >
> >    Tested with glibc test suite.
> >
> >    Sample results (calls/s):
> >
> >    Haswell:
> >    $(perl -e "print 'A' x 3"):
> >    stock:  211198039
> >    patched:338626619
> >    asm:    465609618
> >
> >    $(perl -e "print 'A' x 100"):
> >    stock:   83151997
> >    patched: 98285919
> >    asm:    120719888
> >
> >    AMD EPYC 7R32:
> >    $(perl -e "print 'A' x 3"):
> >    stock:  282523617
> >    asm:    491498172
> >
> >    $(perl -e "print 'A' x 100"):
> >    stock:  114857172
> >    asm:    112082057
>
> No Reviewed by? More than one pair of eyes on non-trivial assembly is
> almost always a good idea.
>
> Jess
>
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