String compare performance

[bearophobic]

Stewart Gordon Wrote:

> On 27/11/2010 23:04, Kagamin wrote:
> > bearophile Wrote:
> >
> >>> Also, is there a way to bit-compare given memory areas at much
> >>> higher speed than element per element (I mean for arrays in
> >>> general)?
> >>
> >> I don't know. I think you can't.
> >
> > You can use memcmp, though only for utf-8 strings.
> 
> Only for utf-8 strings?  Why's that?  I would've thought memcmp to be 
> type agnostic.
> 
> Stewart.

D community is amazing cult of premature optimization fans. Any one of you heard of canonically equivalent sequences? The integrated Unicode support is a clusterfuck. Please do compare ASCII strings with memcmp, but no Unicode. Where did the original poster pull this problem from, his ass? "My system runs 100,000,000,000 instructions per second, but this comparison of 4 letter strings uses 5 cycles too much! This is the only problem on the way to world domination with my $500 Microsoft Word clone!". No wait, the problems are completely imaginatory.

Bye,
bearophobic