> With higher O values, the difference becomes bigger, but I'm not sure
> then that some of the operations are not optimized out of the process,
> which makes the entire benchmark useless.
I don't think they would be, and it is easy enough to check
(objdump -d way1). Benchmarking is meaningless if you don't
use the optimisation level then will be used in real life.
Also the compiler is really designed to be used with -O,
the code generatd without it is only 'half cooked'.
> Do we go for David's suggestion, that is more efficient, but is also
> more cubersome and requires two extra vars to implement right?
The extra variables are likely to be well optimised by the compiler.
strlcpy/cat will be even slower than the strcpy/cat versions.
way1: 900 ms
way1a: 1321 (strlcpy/cat)
way2: 721 ms
way3: 322 ms
way3a: 223 ms (without bound check)
David
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