Use an explicit table for tolower() to avoid a function call

On some platforms, tolower() is implemented as a function call, in
order to handle locale support.  We never change locales, so can the
result of tolower() into a table, so we don't have to sit through the
function call every time.

~1.3% overall performance improvement on a macro-heavy benchmark under
Linux x86-64.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/nasmlib.h b/nasmlib.h
index 837d679c..7391564c 100644
--- a/nasmlib.h
+++ b/nasmlib.h
@@ -175,6 +175,14 @@ void standard_extension(char *inname, char *outname, char *extension,
 
 #define elements(x)     ( sizeof(x) / sizeof(*(x)) )
 
+/*
+ * tolower table -- avoids a function call on some platforms.
+ * NOTE: unlike the tolower() function in ctype, EOF is *NOT*
+ * a permitted value, for obvious reasons.
+ */
+void tolower_init(void);
+extern unsigned char nasm_tolower_tab[256];
+#define nasm_tolower(x) nasm_tolower_tab[(unsigned char)(x)]
 
 /*
  * some handy macros that will probably be of use in more than one