Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Slow inventories on large source trees

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:48:55PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> According to gprof, it's spending 78% of its time doing regex matching 
> in filename_matches.  The lion's share of that is in mem_set0, but 
> you've got to consider that it's doing 9 hundred thousand calls.

I would be interested to know how memset(..., 0, ...) behaves (#define
mem_set0 to that), since at least in theory, mem_set0 is between 10
and 100 times slower than memset() on an athlon (and around 10 times
on a pentium 3 or 4).

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