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From: rjk@mgweed.UUCP (Randy King)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Fix for "Not contributor" - USG strchr
Message-ID: <7799@mgweed.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 21:37:26 EST
Article-I.D.: mgweed.7799
Posted: Thu Mar 15 21:37:26 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 07:41:06 EST
References: <263@apollo.uucp>
Organization: AT&T Consumer Products - Montgomery Illinois
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One possible reason for changing the BSD string index functions
into the USG string functions is that items in string(3) like
strchr, strcmp, etc. are implemented in hardware on the AT&T
processors.  Calling one of these functions traps to some
microcode instructions and is obviously faster.

						Randy King
						AT&T/CP-MG
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