$10K coding deathmatch

[Bryan Sant]

On 11/3/06, Barry Roberts <blr at robertsr.us> wrote:
> Java start-up time is big enough you're never gonna win the 5-line
> test, but I can't resist suggesting this short-ciruit optimzation to
> see how much difference it makes, since all the others do it.
>
> Change:
>      for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
> to:
>      for (int i = 0; i < len && !match; i++) {
>
>
> Barry

My bad.  The benchmarked code was doing a short-circuit on the loop.
It actually had:

if (diff > len || diff == 0) {
  match == false;
  break;
}

Which does the same thing.  I like your code better though.

-Bryan