JIT: Suboptimal codegen for string comparison against a const

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public static int N1(ReadOnlySpan<char> path)
{
    if (path.StartsWith(@"\\?\UNC\", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        return 8;
    return 0;
}

vptest   xmm0, xmm0
sete     al        ; <--
movzx    rax, al   ; <-- Redundant
test     eax, eax  ; <--
jne      SHORT G_M59455_IG06

vptest   xmm0, xmm0
je       SHORT G_M59455_IG06

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