From 2005a137172d33f551b4370600ee3fc582a71177 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Bowyer-Smyth <bbowyersmyth@live.com.au>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 06:47:43 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] String.StartsWith ordinal optimization

---
 src/mscorlib/src/System/String.cs | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/mscorlib/src/System/String.cs b/src/mscorlib/src/System/String.cs
index 8acafd6d5fc4..eb8fdd88a254 100644
--- a/src/mscorlib/src/System/String.cs
+++ b/src/mscorlib/src/System/String.cs
@@ -2556,10 +2556,12 @@ public Boolean StartsWith(String value, StringComparison comparisonType) {
                     return CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.CompareInfo.IsPrefix(this, value, CompareOptions.IgnoreCase);                    
 
                 case StringComparison.Ordinal:
-                    if( this.Length < value.Length) {
+                    if( this.Length < value.Length || m_firstChar != value.m_firstChar) {
                         return false;
                     }
-                    return (nativeCompareOrdinalEx(this, 0, value, 0, value.Length) == 0);
+                    return (value.Length == 1) ?
+                            true :                 // First char is the same and thats all there is to compare
+                            (nativeCompareOrdinalEx(this, 0, value, 0, value.Length) == 0);
 
                 case StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase:
                     if( this.Length < value.Length) {