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		kelnos on April 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C Strings and my slow descent to madness Out of curiosity, why do you use this? I expect the builtin strlen() to be even more optimized than this. There's a lot more you can do than a simple loop unrolling.

YourDadVPN on April 6, 2023 [–]

Especially when there's a decent chance the compiler would replace the loop with a call to strlen.

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