On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:07:22PM -0800, Chris Hecker wrote:
> 
> >The results (execution time in seconds) were as follows.
> >  strstr   55.74
> >  regexp  154.37
> >  OCamlA  302.57
> >  OCamlB  129.23
> 
> Any ideas why strstr blows the others away?  What's the libc strstr look like?  I just looked in the MSVC source and it's a braindead while loop (copied below), so it's not like it's doing a fancy Boyer-Moore or anything.  This is exactly the kind of problem on which I'd expect caml to come within 10% of c.

Is this kind of thing not one of the field which can take advantage of the
vector units included in the processor, like mmx, altivec and the equivalent
in alpha or sparc processors ? Not sure though, it would depend on the actual
implementation used and command set.

Friendly,

Sven Luther