Reminds me of an article[1] that described how he cut GTA Online loading times by 70% because strlen was getting called for effectively every character in a string

[1]: https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

I remember reading this blog post when it was first published, but the subsequent updates are better than I would've ever expected this to turn out. Worth checking it out again if you've seen it before :)