[m-dev.] Equality and pointer equality

[Ralph Becket]

It just occurred to me to wonder whether the Mercury equality tests
first test for word/pointer equality before doing anything more
complicated?  For instance, in runtime/mercury_string.h we have

#define MR_string_equal(s1,s2) (strcmp((char*)(s1),(char*)(s2))==0)

This might be faster:

#define MR_string_equal(s1,s2) ((s1)==(s2) || strcmp((char*)(s1),(char*)(s2))==0)

(From /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/lib/string.c, strcmp doesn't first test
for pointer equality, so this test isn't redundant.)

-- Ralph
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