I've looked at standard library implementations of strncmp before, and there are definitely some crazy tricks done to make it fast. Anyway, totally agree that I

I've looked at standard library implementations of strncmp before, and there are definitely some crazy tricks done to make it fast. Anyway, totally agree that I'd want to see some benchmarks to prove that it is a bottleneck. My point is that I wouldn't claim that it isn't without seeing benchmarks either.