[julia-dev] String comparison

[David Anthoff]

I just saw this:



http://jcdav.is/2016/09/01/How-the-JVM-compares-your-strings/



I don't know whether that might be relevant for julia, but I certainly
wasn't aware that there are special SSE instructions for string comparison
and it was a fun read.



Cheers,

David



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David Anthoff

University of California, Berkeley



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[Steven G. Johnson]

Comparisons for String in Julia call memcmp in libc, which hopefully is
heavily optimized. (I know that glibc's memcmp uses SSE instructions, for
example.)