On 30/10/14 01:34, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > Hi Riley > > Suppose the strings are 10k bytes each (10240), but they differ at byte zero, > where is the break instruction to stop the compare?
Why would there need to be a break instruction? That would mean that the time taken to compare strings of equal length would change depending on the length of the string, unless I'm mistaken. > The code needs an addition to the for loop as shown below. > In place of xor, the return of a comparison when non zero is encountered > would allow one to know if string x < string y or the contrary. Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. Why is it important to be able to know whether string x > string y or vice versa? > Regards > Leslie > Mr. Leslie Satenstein > Montréal Québec, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
