Issue 20 in ocaml-extlib: String.starts_with and ends_with use String.sub

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Status: Accepted
Owner: ygrekher...@gmail.com
Labels: Milestone-Release1.6 Type-Enhancement Performance

New issue 20 by ygrekher...@gmail.com: String.starts_with and ends_with use
String.sub
http://code.google.com/p/ocaml-extlib/issues/detail?id=20

This means extra allocation and throw-away data copy. Presumably direct
byte-by-byte comparison should be faster.

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Updates:
Status: Fixed
Labels: -Milestone-Release1.6

Comment #1 on issue 20 by ygrekher...@gmail.com: String.starts_with and

ends_with use String.sub
http://code.google.com/p/ocaml-extlib/issues/detail?id=20

Fixed in r389.
Implemention with recursive loop gives 4x speed-up.