Operator Overoverloading

Studying part of a large complex middleware for a management web application, and wondering why this:
InitechString str1, str2;
...
if(!(str1 != str2))
{
    ...
}

occurred almost as often as this:
InitechString str1, str2;
...
if(str1 == str2)
{
    ...
}

I dug a little deeper and found...


// CASE-SENSITIVE COMPARISON
//
int InitechString::operator==(const InitechString& r) const
{
    return !strcmp(m_ptr, r.m_ptr);
}
// CASE-NONSESTIVE COMPARISON
//
int InitechString::operator!=(const InitechString& r) const
{
    return !!strcmp(m_ptr, r.m_ptr);
}

>>7
Second, case-insensitive comparison could be faster, because shitload of MICROOPTIMISATIONS PENIS

Yes, you are right and so what? That will never be the bottleneck, unless you are processing natural languages or something. Learn to profile instead of micro optimize.