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On 23 April 2015 at 10:11, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
wrote:

> Also, if I read your quoted performance numbers in your earlier mail
> correctly,
> we are only looking at a 1-4% performance increase. Is the additional code
> to
> maintain worth the benefit?
>

... and if so, how would one decide whether it is better to to add this to
DPDK vs contribute it to GNU libc?

Pawel noted that this is not compatible with memcmp(3). It is very similar
to the legacy function bcmp(3) though so perhaps libc would accept it as
such.

Cheers,
-Luke