Only one use of stringsCompare is left. Cannot simply be replaced by
strings.Compare for bootstrapping reasons I guess.
Moving the function away from util.go to the actual destination data.go
also would not help much. So I left this one unchanged for readability and convenience.

Change-Id: I60d22fec0be8f8c47c80586436f9a550af59194e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/14953Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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