On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 20:40:52 UTC, qznc wrote:
On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 18:15:16 UTC, qznc wrote:
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Ok, to answer my own question, this looks good:

bool string_cmp_opt(immutable(ubyte)[] x, immutable(ubyte)[] y) {
    pragma(inline, false);
    if (x.length != y.length) return false;
    int i=0;
    // word-wise compare is faster than byte-wise
    if (x.length > size_t.sizeof)
        for (; i < x.length - size_t.sizeof; i+=size_t.sizeof) {
            size_t* xw = cast(size_t*) &x[i];
            size_t* yw = cast(size_t*) &x[i];
            if (*xw != *yw) return false;
        }
    // last sub-word part
    for (; i < x.length; i+=1) {
        if (x[i] != y[i]) // byte compare
            return false;
    }
    return true;
}

Any comments or recommendations?

Isn't that something that the compiler should optimize for you when you do an equality comparison?
Is it really faster than ldc (with all optimzations turned on)?

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