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blog: win32 string comparison performance

Posted: 2023 Jan 03, 08:42
by nikos
here's the comment area for today's blog post found at
https://www.zabkat.com/blog/case-conversion-timing.htm

Re: blog: win32 string comparison performance

Posted: 2023 Jan 03, 14:43
by otlaolap
Naturally xplorer² isn't doing string comparisons all the time, never mind half a million of them in a row, so here's another instance of striving for excellence, saving the last drop of CPU power, which turns out to be not really important, as we have seen time and again in this blog series...
and in my real life

Re: blog: win32 string comparison performance

Posted: 2023 Jan 03, 23:53
by Tuxman
Unsurprisingly, low-level API functions are more efficient than abstractions.

Re: blog: win32 string comparison performance

Posted: 2023 Jan 06, 15:54
by johngalt
I also find it interesting that the first method worsens on 64 bit architecture while the second method improves.

Re: blog: win32 string comparison performance

Posted: 2023 Jan 06, 17:45
by nikos
that is probably within the limit of clock accuracy, probably it's the same in both 32/64 bits