Christian Schulte:

> Noticed this myself. I am quite confused right now, as I also wrote a bcmp
> function in C and the compiler also generates faster code.

Be careful about running afoul of clang's optimizations.

Calls to memcmp(), memcpy(), memset() with known fixed sizes may
be replaced by optimized inline code.

Clang also recognizes some algorithms and replaces them with optimized
code.  I would not be surprised if it recognized memcmp()-like code
and replaced it with a call to memcmp().

Check the generated assembly to be sure.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de