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		tptacek on March 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Glibc's strlen implementation: Probably not what y... I'm worried nobody's going to mod this up because it doesn't talk about bit twiddling hacks or assembly cycle counts, but it is in fact that real answer to this problem. Don't use ASCIIZ when string processing is a bottleneck.

dchest on March 11, 2009 [–]

Probably because it's not a real answer to _this_ problem (counting the number of bytes in a null-terminated string)?

tptacek on March 11, 2009 | [–]

Meh. Fair point.

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