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You will often have to do a page-fault for both, so loading wont be too much an issue. However, you have to get it into an integer to compare it to begin with.

You will often have to do a page-fault for both, so loading wont be too much an issue. However, you have to get it into an integer to compare it to begin with. So the string method is purely overhead.

tptacek 17y ago
A page fault, because you touched a 4 byte word, a 16 byte string, or a 16 byte binary address? We're talking about data types that fit in a single L1 cache line.
audidude 17y ago
Something has to load it from disk into the cache line ..