interesting fact about StrCaseCmp

[Martin Pool]

On 18 Feb 2003, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> Possibly only for long strings?  But then that is probably
> micro-optimization.  

If we really cared about optimizing this function, then we would
compare character-by-character rather than converting both strings to
uppercase first.  This is a bit hard for some wierd encodings I know,
but it ought to be possible to do it in charcnv.c.

The case where we compare, for example, a thousand-character string to
the empty string is ridiculously slow at the moment.

I don't know if this is a problem for Samba overall or not, so I'm not
touching it at the moment.

	int StrCaseCmp(const char *s, const char *t)
	{
		pstring buf1, buf2;
		unix_strupper(s, strlen(s)+1, buf1, sizeof(buf1));
		unix_strupper(t, strlen(t)+1, buf2, sizeof(buf2));
		return strcmp(buf1,buf2);
	}

-- 
Martin