String compare in words?

[Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 17:13:49 UTC, qznc wrote:
> Given two string (or char[] or ubyte[]) objects, I want to 
> compare them. The naive loop accesses the arrays byte-wise. How 
> could I turn this into a word-wise compare for better 
> performance?
>
> Is a cast into size_t[] ok? Some Phobos helper functions?

  Assuming you don't have codepoints and only want to do a raw 
compare, i believe you can as long as the sizes align.