I was playing with an idea of JimG with the instring examples posted earlier and with a few mods, the algo seems to be a lot faster. The results surprised me and I checked the output to make sure there were no PH*K*PS and it seems to be working corectly and returning the corect values.
These are the results I am getting with the current test piece.
707 timing msvcrt strstr
99 timing finstr
336 timing InStringL
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706 average msvcrt strstr
99 average finstr
338 average InStringL
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I did the algo as two word sized reads rather than Jims suggestion of a single dword read as the ROL reg, 16 was a lot slower than the aditional word sized read and used a sequential add fall through rather than use jumps as 3 adds are still faster than a jump. My only comment is that the BYTE reads after a DWORD write may produce a stall on an older processor but this does not show up on either of my PIVs.
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These are my results:
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AMD Athlon Processor
1.0 GHz. 256 MB of Ram
CPU speed = 999,624,549 Hz.
Max = 1,000,424,610 Hz.
Min = 994,376,847 Hz.
Ave = 999,185,241 Hz.
Spread = 6052.69 ppm
Number of tests = 13
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620 timing msvcrt strstr
18 timing finstr
340 timing InStringL
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621 average msvcrt strstr
18 average finstr
339 average InStringL
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Very impressive, dude! :thumbu
Paul
Jim just found the error in the lst demoI posted, timed version had 0 instead of 1 for the starting position. I knew there was something wrong with it but could not find it. :red
Wow, I wasn't expecting these timings! Nice! :U
634 timing msvcrt strstr
17 timing finstr
304 timing InStringL
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632 average msvcrt strstr
16 average finstr
302 average InStringL
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Seb,
You should have read the post before yours, the results were unusual and Jim found an error in the way the proc was called. Sad to say it was not that fast.
Ah, I see. That's too bad. :(
Little error :bg
Corrected benchmarks, for those wondering what's the difference between 0 and 1:
628 timing msvcrt strstr
413 timing finstr
301 timing InStringL
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628 average msvcrt strstr
413 average finstr
301 average InStringL
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