On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Richard Heyes <richardh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > and the case insensitive versions are a hair faster still ;) >> > > Are they? I always thought that case-sensitive functions were faster > because they have to test fewer comparisons. Eg To test if i == I in a > case-insensitive fashion requires two comparisons (i == I and i == i) > whereas a case-sensitive comparison requires only one (i == i). umm, isnt it like the other way around. in the case of case-sensitive, you have to be able to distinguish between i and I, whereas w/ the case insensitive, you dont care so, basically, you strtolower() first thing, then just compare to lower case characters. -nathan
