Comparing strings... (long but maybe worth it)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <11488 at alice.att.com> ark at alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> >I imagine that further optimizations are possible...
>
>> Definitely. ...
>> [optimization description deleted]
>
>Neat!  And you haven't even unrolled any loops!

If I find time in the next few days, I may post a followup going further!
It has occurred to me that if you look at it from the right angle, even
the radically-different approach I alluded to can be derived by source
transformations.  (The required angle is about 137 + 56i degrees. :-))
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