wmemchar for unix

[monarch_dodra]

On Tuesday, 27 August 2013 at 14:37:14 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Aug 26, 2013, at 11:57 PM, monarch_dodra 
> <monarchdodra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For performance reasons, I need a "w" version of memchr.
>> 
>> C defines wmemchr as:
>> wchar_t * wmemchr ( const wchar_t *, wchar_t, size_t );
>> 
>> Unfortunatly, on unix, "wchar_t" is defined a *4* bytes long,
>> making wmemchr, effectivelly, "dmemchr".
>> 
>> Are there any "2 byte" alternatives for wmemchr on unix?
>
> Why not cast the array to ushort[] and do a find()?  Or is that 
> too slow as well?

Because it's specifically to speed up find's implementation ^^