A new idea came up to detect the presence of a null byte in a word.
It saves several operations compared to the previous one, and eliminates
the jumps (about 6 instructions which can run 2-by-2 in parallel).
This sole optimisation improved the line count speed by about 30%.
All files referencing the previous ebtree code were changed to point
to the new one in the ebtree directory. A makefile variable (EBTREE_DIR)
is also available to use files from another directory.
The ability to build the libebtree library temporarily remains disabled
because it can have an impact on some existing toolchains and does not
appear worth it in the medium term if we add support for multi-criteria
stickiness for instance.
Willy Tarreau