Resend: implement _ismbcalpha, _ismbcalnum
David Laight
david at l8s.co.uk
Sat Nov 16 10:20:17 CST 2002
> An interesting side note: Microsoft claims that their implementations of
> these functions are blindingly fast (they said something along the
> lines that calling these is faster than "if (((0xXX <= ch) && (ch <=
> 0xYY)) || ((0xAA <= ch) && (ch <=0xBB)))"). I wonder if this means
> they are using a lookup table in their implementation? Not planning to
> implement any such thing myself, of course, but I did find it to be an
> intrigueing statement.
A lookup table is likely to be slower - after all the required entry
is unlikely to be in the data cache (except when running a benchmark).
Clearly the comparison
if ( (unsigned)(ch - 0xXX) < 0xYY - 0xXX ...
is faster than the one quoted - but the compiler is likely to
generate that anyway.
David
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