way to make it a bit faster

[jwinkler2083233]

Thanks for making this.

I noticed that you're putting the comparison at the top of the assembly functions.
If you put the comparisons at the end, it would be a bit faster. You can assume that there is at least one element.

It's like using 'for ()' when you could instead use 'do...while{}'

[lukechampine]

That would save what, 1 CMP? Doesn't seem worth it to me. But if you make a PR and the benchmark shows an improvement, I'll merge it.