string-match-p [was Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113149: * ido.el (ido-read-internal): Fix bug#14620.]

[Glenn Morris]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> Aka   ((string-match-p ...)) as it is used as a predicate, and not to
> extract match data.

If I don't care about the match data one way or the other (as here, I
assume) why is string-match-p preferable? Is it faster or something?