I too found that interesting. I would not have guessed that the use of 'repne scas' ( scan a string ) would be uncommon in a large codebase... perhaps there is

I too found that interesting. I would not have guessed that the use of 'repne scas' ( scan a string ) would be uncommon in a large codebase... perhaps there is some particular reason why that would be well known if you did a lot of Java profiling.