Fast strcmp() wanted.

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <1990Sep27.151543.8025 at ccs.carleton.ca> dfs at doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll) writes:

| Hmm... that seems strange.  If the first characters of the strings differ,
| most strcmps will not bother to test the rest.  All that the above code
| possibly saves you is a function call/return.  If this makes such a huge
| difference, then the compiler or your machine's architecture must be pretty
| bad.

  If the test of the first character saves a procedure call, then no
matter how good the compiler is it will be faster not to do the call.
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