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

[Michal Moskal]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 07:48:52PM -0400, Ben Maurer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is very interesting. Am going to look into the assembly we generate
> to see if this is the best we can do.
> 
> I am a bit unsure about the long compares, what do they gain us?
> Internally, they are just two int compares.

x86-64 anyone?

However the problem with comparing strings as ints -- are they properly
aligned? Using unaligned access on x86 slows things down, and on ppc
it AFAIR generates an exception.

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