Looking at the benchtests, both strstr and strcasestr spend a lot of time
in a slow initialization loop handling one character per iteration.
This can be simplified and use the much faster strlen/strnlen/strchr/memcmp.
Read ahead a few cachelines to reduce the number of strnlen calls, which
improves performance by ~3-4%. This patch improves the time taken for the
full strstr benchtest by >40%.
* string/strcasestr.c (STRCASESTR): Simplify and speedup first match.
* string/strstr.c (AVAILABLE): Likewise.
Improve strstr performance. Strstr tends to be slow because it uses
many calls to memchr and a slow byte loop to scan for the next match.
Performance is significantly improved by using strnlen on larger blocks
and using strchr to search for the next matching character. strcasestr
can also use strnlen to scan ahead, and memmem can use memchr to check
for the next match.
On the GLIBC bench tests the performance gains on Cortex-A72 are:
strstr: +25%
strcasestr: +4.3%
memmem: +18%
On a 256KB dataset strstr performance improves by 67%, strcasestr by 47%.
Reviewd-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2008-03-29 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Rewrite string searches to O(n) rather than O(n^2).
* string/str-two-way.h: New file. For linear fixed-allocation
string searching.
* string/memmem.c: New implementation.
* string/strstr.c: New implementation.
* string/strcasestr.c: New implementation.
* sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c (getaddrinfo): Call _res_hconf_init
Wilco Dijkstra
Joseph Myers
Allan McRae
Maxim Kuvyrkov
Paul Eggert
H.J. Lu
Ulrich Drepper
Jakub Jelinek