A sse42 version of strstr used pcmpistr instruction which is quite
ineffective. A faster way is look for pairs of characters which is uses
sse2, is faster than pcmpistr and for real strings a pairs we look for
are relatively rare.
For linear time complexity we use buy or rent technique which switches
to two-way algorithm when superlinear behaviour is detected.
We add new memcpy version that uses unaligned loads which are fast
on modern processors. This allows second improvement which is avoiding
computed jump which is relatively expensive operation.
Tests available here:
http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~ondra/memcpy_profile_result27_04_13.tar.bz2
Allan McRae
Ondřej Bílka
Joseph Myers
H.J. Lu