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From: mark@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Efficient STRing CoMPares?
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.213645.1447@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 17 Mar 91 20:36:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.142821@mars.mpr.ca>
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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In article <1991Mar15.142821@mars.mpr.ca>, stone@mars.mpr.ca (Darren Stone) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know if there's a better (!?) way to compare
> strings than with strcmp()?
> 

	Have you already looked at what code an optimizing compiler
produces for STRCMP ? It may be a very good inline code (no subroutine call)
if the compiler is clever.
						G.Mark