Posts tagged: SSE
In a world where CLR and JIT are generating native code for our desktop apps on the fly and horribly inefficient interpreted languages are serving our web content, both server-side and client-side, Intel and AMD folks must think our cheese slipped off our crackers.
The final verdict: SSE2 is the best option. It offers performance between 150% and 388% of the CRT strlen function. 32-bit CRT and libc strlen are quite slow and the 64-bit strlens are about twice as fast.
