[RFC] speedup some tests in httpd

[Christophe JAILLET]

Hi,

In many places of httpd, we are skipping white spaces with code that 
looks like :
   while (*l && apr_isspace(*l)) {
       ++l;
   }
The first test against *l is IMO useless and could be removed in order 
to improve the generated code.
   while (apr_isspace(*l)) {
       ++l;
   }
apr_isspace is in fact turned to a call to isspace by the apr library 
and isspace(0) returns 0.


I also made some measurement.
The version with the test against *l is faster ONLY when the string to 
scan is EMPTY. In this case it is more or less 50% faster to completely 
avoid the call to isspace.
In ALL other cases, removing the first test is about 15% faster.


I have spotted more or less 20 of these in the code and I could provide 
a patch in bugzilla to remove these useless tests if you think it is useful.

Thanks for your feed back.
Best regards,

Christophe Jaillet