s p a c e s h i p o p e r a t o r Comparing UTF-8 can be done by simple byte lexicographic comparison per definition, so we just piggy-back on StringView's high-performance comparator.
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ public:
[[nodiscard]] bool operator==(char const* cstring) const;
[[nodiscard]] bool operator!=(char const* cstring) const { return !(*this == cstring); }
+ // NOTE: UTF-8 is defined in a way that lexicographic ordering of code points is equivalent to lexicographic ordering of bytes.
+ [[nodiscard]] int operator<=>(String const& other) const { return this->bytes_as_string_view().compare(other.bytes_as_string_view()); }
+
[[nodiscard]] u32 hash() const;
template<Arithmetic T>