Re: [VOTE]strn(case)cmp supporting a negative length as its third paramter

From: Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:50:27 +0000
Subject: Re: [VOTE]strn(case)cmp supporting a negative length as its third paramter
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Laruence wrote:
>   I think we are not talking about how to accomplish a function,  we
> are talking about how to do it better
> 
>   and, in fact, I think strrev is need more cpu time and alloc space,
> although they are very tiny :)

I very much doubt it's ever going to be a bottleneck (and I think the
same about strncmp vs. substr; no real need to avoid a temp variable). I
could see this patch being useful, but personally, I think the substr
solution is a better one, since it doesn't risk breaking BC, as Rasmus
noted.

-- 
Ryan McCue
<http://ryanmccue.info/>


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