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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: STREQ
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Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 14:04:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 26 14:04:50 1987
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> However, STREQ may have only minimal value, as any good strcmp()
> implementation will return immediately upon discovering that the first
> bytes of its arguments do not match.

Yes... but it still incurs the full call/return overhead, which is usually
an order of magnitude more expensive than a simple one-character compare.
STREQ and similar things produced a considerable improvement in the speed of
C news, which does a lot of string-bashing.
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