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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 9477] New: String (and array) comparisons are needlessly very slow

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           Summary: String (and array) comparisons are needlessly very
                    slow
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: performance
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: thecybershadow gmail.com



11:18:10 EET ---
While profiling one of my programs, I've noticed a performance issue in an area
that I wouldn't expect to be slow: string comparisons.

It looks like array comparisons go through the rather convoluted TypeInfo
equality code, which contains a few indirect calls and calls to runtime code.
It can be inlined/optimized to a length comparison and a memcmp call.

If the length is known (static arrays), the length check can be skipped, and
for short arrays the comparison can even be inlined. Bearophile previously
reported this problem for static arrays in issue 6658.

I should note that a slice copy currently compiles to a memcpy call.

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Walter Bright <bugzilla digitalmars.com> changed:

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00:59:25 PDT ---
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1766

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Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/c984175cf25dfa17b3956e8e33ff83547fa56b0a
Optimize simple array comparison (Issue 9477)

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/8b9d88d19fe4bb239209c004230fd5ac271436c3


Optimize simple array comparisons (Issue 9477)

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See also Issue 6658

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