Adding upstream version 1.16.10.upstream/1.16.10upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+// Copyright 2015 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+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.
+func Compare(a, b string) int {
+	// 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 a == b {
+		return 0
+	}
+	if a < b {
+		return -1
+	}
+	return +1
+}