Christian Heimes added the comment: It's also bad for memory read performance if the string is rather long. The memory controller performs best when code reads memory sequential. The talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC1EKLQ2Wmg about mythbusting modern hardware sums it up real nice.
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