The 0 length strncmp is interesting for correctness but not for
performance.
* benchtests/bench-strncmp.c (test_main): Remove 0 length tests.
(do_test_limit): Likewise.
Don't reuse buffers for different strncmp implementations since the
earlier implementation will end up warming the cache for the later
one. Eventually there should be a more elegant way to do this.
* benchtests/bench-strncmp.c (do_test_limit): Reallocate buffers
for every implementation.
(do_test): Likewise.
Switch the string benchmarks to using bench-timing.h instead
of hp-timing.h directly. This allows the string benchmarks to
be run usefully on architectures such as ARM that do not have
support for hp-timing.h.
In order to do this the tests have been changed from timing each
individual call and picking the lowest execution time recorded to
timing a number of calls and taking the mean execution time.
ChangeLog:
2013-09-04 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* benchtests/bench-timing.h (TIMING_PRINT_MEAN): New macro.
* benchtests/bench-string.h: Include bench-timing.h instead
of including hp-timing.h directly. (INNER_LOOP_ITERS): New
define. (HP_TIMING_BEST): Delete macro. (test_init): Remove
call to HP_TIMING_DIFF_INIT.
* benchtests/bench-memccpy.c: Use bench-timing.h macros
instead of hp-timing.h macros.
* benchtests/bench-memchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memcmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memcpy.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memmem.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memmove.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memset.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-rawmemchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcasecmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcasestr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcat.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcpy.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcpy_chk.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strlen.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncasecmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncat.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncpy.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strnlen.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strpbrk.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strrchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strspn.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strstr.c: Likewise.
Siddhesh Poyarekar