Re: strange code in gscanner.c

[Miroslav Silovic <miro vams com>]

Tim Janik wrote:

> i think the direct comparison in question was written for efficiency
> reasons. a quick test shows, that, depending on the value of
> v_identifier, introducing strcmp() makes the current code from 1.5 to
> 2.5 times slower, introducing g_strcasecmp() makes the code around
> 7 times slower.
> that's with glibc and -O2, note that glibc can already unfold certain
> strcmp() calls, while the comparatively bad performance of g_strcasecmp()
> is due to GLib rolling it's own loop.
>
> >   OK to commit?
>
> nope ;)

I think that the explanation above belongs into the code as a comment. :)

   Miro