On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
> It really depends on the OS and the version of the OS. In > my test cases on OSX and CentOS5 and centOS6, I see > measurable improvements. > Part of the reason for your differences... on this console here I have; $ set | grep -E "^L[AC]" LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Knock that back to a SBCS en_US.ISO-8859-1 and you'll see an improvement, not that the stdc library implementation was inefficient (it wasn't), but that UTF-8 causes strcmp to fall over into MBCS character handling. As long as this function is promoted for fast ASCII-specific token recognition and has no other unexpected equalities, it serves a useful purpose.
