[viraptor]

> fallback that does straight byte by byte comparison

That's not even funny anymore... I wonder how many iterations will it take, until they discover that strncmp compiles down to "repz cmpsb" (or equivalent) and you really cannot do better than that with if-s on each character.

[oldgregg]

I like to think I'm a decent programmer.

Then I read threads like this. :o) Keep learning...