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assert: prefer reference comparison over string comparison #41015

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Pointer comparison takes constant time and string comparison takes
linear time unless there is some string interning going on, so this
might be a little bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Darshan Sen darshan.sen@postman.com

Pointer comparison takes constant time and string comparison takes
linear time unless there is some string interning going on, so this
might be a little bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Darshan Sen <darshan.sen@postman.com>
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danielleadams pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 16, 2021
Pointer comparison takes constant time and string comparison takes
linear time unless there is some string interning going on, so this
might be a little bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Darshan Sen <darshan.sen@postman.com>

PR-URL: #41015
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Zijian Liu <lxxyxzj@gmail.com>
danielleadams pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 17, 2021
Pointer comparison takes constant time and string comparison takes
linear time unless there is some string interning going on, so this
might be a little bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Darshan Sen <darshan.sen@postman.com>

PR-URL: #41015
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Zijian Liu <lxxyxzj@gmail.com>
danielleadams pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 31, 2022
Pointer comparison takes constant time and string comparison takes
linear time unless there is some string interning going on, so this
might be a little bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Darshan Sen <darshan.sen@postman.com>

PR-URL: #41015
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Zijian Liu <lxxyxzj@gmail.com>
danielleadams pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 31, 2022
Pointer comparison takes constant time and string comparison takes
linear time unless there is some string interning going on, so this
might be a little bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Darshan Sen <darshan.sen@postman.com>

PR-URL: #41015
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Zijian Liu <lxxyxzj@gmail.com>
Linkgoron pushed a commit to Linkgoron/node that referenced this pull request Jan 31, 2022
Pointer comparison takes constant time and string comparison takes
linear time unless there is some string interning going on, so this
might be a little bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Darshan Sen <darshan.sen@postman.com>

PR-URL: nodejs#41015
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Zijian Liu <lxxyxzj@gmail.com>
danielleadams pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 1, 2022
Pointer comparison takes constant time and string comparison takes
linear time unless there is some string interning going on, so this
might be a little bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Darshan Sen <darshan.sen@postman.com>

PR-URL: #41015
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Zijian Liu <lxxyxzj@gmail.com>
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