[systemd-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Optimize startswith() to macro

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 23.08.13 14:09, WANG Chao (chaowang at redhat.com) wrote:

> > > - Why not use startswith() instead of first_word()?
> > first_word is not equivalent: there must be a word boundary after the
> > word:
> 
> Yeah, you're right. I occasionally got carried away at midnight :(
> 
> And I think a inline static version could be a little faster? Right?

Not necessarilly. On today's CPUs often smaller code results in faster
execution than avoiding function calls...

If we shift this around further we probably should do it properly and
play around with benchmarks...

Lennart

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