[Gllug] Re: [OxLUG] C function strcasecmp

[Nix]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Alex Hudson stipulated:
> On 22 Jul 2001, Nix wrote:
> 
>> This is target-specific. GCC will rewrite adding and subtracting 32 into
>> bitwise logicals, but it won't, on some architectures (e.g. i586)
>> rewrite multiplications by 2 into shifts, because the shifts can
>> actually be slower.
> 
> Are you talking about the P4 here?

Er, no, I'm getting my facts reversed. I've done that over and over
again today; must be hay fever.

*selfLART*

>                                    Shifts should be _much_ faster than
> multiplies on most Intel chips,

I'm not sure *what* chip I was thinking of. I'll have to check the GCC
sources :)

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