Daniel Lemire personal blog

Implementing ‘strlen’ using SVE

In C, the length of a string in marked by a 0 byte at the end of the string. Thus to determine the length of the string, one must scan it, looking for the 0 byte. Recent ARM processors have a powerful instruction set (SVE) that is well suited for such problems. It allows you … Continue reading Implementing ‘strlen’…
Points
109
HN comments
45
Submissions
1
Cited by
0 commenters

Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2022

On Hacker News

SubmittedTitle on HNPointsComments
Dec 19, 2022Implementing ‘strlen’ using SVE by ibobev10945

More from Daniel Lemire

All 87 posts →

Related posts from the same era