[Mono-devel-list] Patch for String.Equals

[Andreas Nahr]

Hi,

I've been looking into optimizing the speed of some core classes.
The optimizations are mostly done using microbenchmarks, so somebody should test that for a bigger app like mcs (cant test because I devel on Windows without cygwin).
Here is the first one:
Using csc to compile and mcs to execute this speeds up String.Equals.
Speed for 1 char it is about equal to old. For 2-7 chars it is about twice as fast (it has special handling for up to 7 chars). For 9 gain is about 20% and then grows with size for long needed comparisons (75 chars it is about twice as fast as current solution).
For small compares it is even a lot faster than MS impl. (I also think compares to strings that only differ in the 100th char should be rather seldom).

Andreas
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