Efficient STRing CoMPares?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <11111 at dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
-Of course, you can build yourself a `string pool' system, in which each
-distinct string appears exactly once, and then two strings match iff their
-pointers match . . . but this merely offloads the `compare for truly
-equal' into the string pool system.
-If you need to do many compares, this is probably worthwhile anyway.

Gee, great minds think alike!