The linear search using strcmp() shows up in pmcstat for several percent.
Split the operators into lengths and whether they start with '-' and compare
bytes using == instead of strcmp().
A simple test
sh -c 'i=0; w=$(printf %0100d 7); while [ "$i" -lt 1000000 ]; do
v=$(printf %sx%s "$w" "$w"); i=$((i+1)); done'
is over 4% faster on an amd64 bhyve VM.
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