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remove obsolete i386 MD memchr implementation
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Authored by emaste on Sep 25 2019, 1:59 PM.
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bde reports:

This uses scasb, which was last optimal on the 8086, or perhaps the
original i386.  On freefall, it is several times slower than the
naive translation of the naive C code.

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