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Improve String#casecmp? and Symbol#casecmp? performance with ASCII string

Added by watson1978 (Shizuo Fujita) over 6 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

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Open
Assignee:
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:82086]

Description

I think String#casecmp and String#casecmp? are similar methods. But they have different performance with ASCII strings.

It seems that String#casecmp handles ASCII string only, but it is faster than String#casecmp?.

This patch uses the code of String#casecmp on String#casecmp? for ASCII strings. However, it introduces a minor penalty for UTF8 strings due to detection of ASCII/UTF8 strings.

String#casecmp? ASCII -> 61.3 % up
String#casecmp? UTF8  ->  1.3 % down
Symbol#casecmp? ASCII -> 80.0 % up
Symbol#casecmp? UTF8  ->  4.0 % down

Before

Calculating -------------------------------------
      String#casecmp      5.961M (± 3.8%) i/s -     29.838M in   5.017907s
String#casecmp? ASCII
                          3.530M (± 8.6%) i/s -     17.554M in   5.034848s
String#casecmp? UTF8      1.252M (± 7.4%) i/s -      6.213M in   5.012168s
      Symbol#casecmp      8.555M (± 2.4%) i/s -     42.822M in   5.009280s
Symbol#casecmp? ASCII
                          4.235M (± 9.7%) i/s -     20.824M in   5.001368s
Symbol#casecmp? UTF8      1.329M (± 0.1%) i/s -      6.704M in   5.043725s

After

Calculating -------------------------------------
      String#casecmp      5.984M (± 6.4%) i/s -     29.829M in   5.020331s
String#casecmp? ASCII
                          5.658M (± 1.5%) i/s -     28.308M in   5.004547s
String#casecmp? UTF8      1.215M (± 4.3%) i/s -      6.132M in   5.060292s
      Symbol#casecmp      8.651M (± 0.9%) i/s -     43.313M in   5.007215s
Symbol#casecmp? ASCII
                          7.462M (± 0.5%) i/s -     37.489M in   5.023892s
Symbol#casecmp? UTF8      1.275M (± 0.2%) i/s -      6.444M in   5.052743s

Test code

require 'benchmark/ips'

Benchmark.ips do |x|
  x.report "String#casecmp" do |loop|
    loop.times { "aBcDeF".casecmp("abcdefg") }
  end
  x.report "String#casecmp? ASCII" do |loop|
    loop.times { "aBcDeF".casecmp?("abcdefg") }
  end
  x.report "String#casecmp? UTF8" do |loop|
    loop.times { "\u{e4 f6 fc}".casecmp?("\u{c4 d6 dc}") }
  end

  x.report "Symbol#casecmp" do |loop|
    loop.times { :aBcDeF.casecmp(:abcdefg) }
  end
  x.report "Symbol#casecmp? ASCII" do |loop|
    loop.times { :aBcDeF.casecmp?(:abcdefg) }
  end
  x.report "Symbol#casecmp? UTF8" do |loop|
    loop.times { :"\u{e4 f6 fc}".casecmp?(:"\u{c4 d6 dc}") }
  end
end

Patch

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1668

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