in reply to Re^2: Tell whether two strings differ at only one position
in thread Tell whether two strings differ at only one position

Both blazar's and japhy's return true when passed 'fred', 'freda' which obviously isn't right.

When you add the code to detect that error, you get: 

                Rate   rg0now  ikegami Not_a_Number   blazar     japhy
+ BrowserUk
rg0now         412/s       --     -69%         -85%     -96%      -96%
+      -96%
ikegami       1311/s     218%       --         -54%     -86%      -88%
+      -89%
Not_a_Number  2842/s     589%     117%           --     -70%      -74%
+      -75%
blazar        9628/s    2236%     634%         239%       --      -13%
+      -17%
japhy        11086/s    2590%     745%         290%      15%        --
+       -4%
BrowserUk    11580/s    2709%     783%         307%      20%        4%
+        --

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