Do ordinal string comparisons #1945

Job	Run time
Build on windows-latest for repo global.json	15m 48s
Build on windows-latest for 6.0	15m 57s
Build on windows-latest for 7.0	12m 19s
Build on windows-latest for 8.0	16m 46s
Build on macos-latest for repo global.json	16m 0s
Build on macos-latest for 6.0	19m 17s
Build on macos-latest for 7.0	19m 27s
Build on macos-latest for 8.0	21m 19s
Build on ubuntu-latest for repo global.json	13m 56s
Build on ubuntu-latest for 6.0	13m 42s
Build on ubuntu-latest for 7.0	15m 49s
Build on ubuntu-latest for 8.0	17m 35s
	3h 17m 55s

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