This time, with the patch attached.

On Nov 8, 2007 9:56 PM, Kaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've fixed ep_strndup <-> se_stnrdup, patch attached.
> From subjective testings, it seems that there is some measurable
> performance improvement - 5-10 percent on my test pcap file (~
> you are not just avoiding a strncmp(), but also the char-by-char search
> for the space that follows the method (as well as another strncmp() for
> 'M-', which is a rare case as well). The optimization, while not the
> cleanest coding-wise, works well because it works for the most common cases
> - and I believe many, many times (subjectively > 90%) of the times it'll hit
> the optimized path.
> Nevertheless, it is important for me that it'll be understood - so I
> documented it inline clearly - I think.
>
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2007 2:12 AM, Stephen Fisher < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:15:45AM +0200, Kaul wrote:
> >
> > > Somewhat inspired by the performance improvements to tvbuff, I've made
> > > some small performance improvements to packet-http.c:
> >
> > > 1. In the most common cases 'GET ', 'POST', 'HTTP' - compare them
> > > against the 32bit value of those strings, instead of strncmp(). I
> > > reckon in most cases it'll be used, and there won't be need for longer
> > > comparison paths.
> >
> > Is this a significant enough performance improvement to warrant making
> > the code a bit harder to read, maintain and understand?  The strncmp()
> > function, at least in a recent FreeBSD libc, looks pretty quick and
> > simple as it is.  I am just wondering; I do not mean to discourage you
> > from you from contributing.
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
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