This updates only the case-sensitive searching. The case-insensitive
part requires quite a few Unicode transformations.
The benchmarks tried are the plain word-by-word comparison used in Qt
5.2 and in builds without SSE2; the SSE2 benchmark; a benchmark using
the SSE4.2 "strchr" instruction. I've run the benchmark both for CPU
cyles used as well as bytes/sec scanning strings.
Improvement over the Qt 5.2 code:
GCC 4.7 GCC 4.9 Clang 3.4 ICC 14
cycles MB/s cycles MB/s cycles MB/s cycles MB/s
SSE2 2.1x 2.9x 2.2x 2.9x 2.1x 3.1x 2.2x 3.1x
SSE4.2 1.5x 1.7x 1.5x 1.7x 1.5x 1.7x 1.6x 1.8x
Once again, the SSE4.2 instruction wasn't as effective as I'd hoped
(not to mention that Clang seems to have some bugs emitting it).
Change-Id: I57c6e65e91791bb5265965cbd1af7fbd8fe7f588
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@digia.com>
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