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package strings
Compare returns an integer comparing two strings lexicographically. The result will be 0 if a==b, -1 if a < b, and +1 if a > b. Compare is included only for symmetry with package bytes. It is usually clearer and always faster to use the built-in string comparison operators ==, <, >, and so on.
NOTE(rsc): This function does NOT call the runtime cmpstring function, because we do not want to provide any performance justification for using strings.Compare. Basically no one should use strings.Compare. As the comment above says, it is here only for symmetry with package bytes. If performance is important, the compiler should be changed to recognize the pattern so that all code doing three-way comparisons, not just code using strings.Compare, can benefit.
	if  ==  {
		return 0
	}
	if  <  {
		return -1
	}
	return +1