I think this is a valid point. I usually try to rely on the optimizations that a...

jasonmoo on Sept 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What I learned from my first C coding challenge

I think this is a valid point. I usually try to rely on the optimizations that are already done for me. I think in this case the strcmp function may be doing some extra work based on locale/collation that I don't need to consider in my code which is making my code faster. But point well taken.