At 1:10 AM +0200 4/17/2000, Stephan Rudlof wrote:
>"Andrew C. Greenberg" wrote:
>>
>>  >- removing #= from String (semantically, means it has to be the same
>>  >result as SequenceableCollection>>=).
>>
>>  Have you benchmarked this one?
>
>No, but benchmarks reagarding the removal or change of Symbol>>=
>; see earlier mails of mine.
>BTW: It's a damned big thread now!

Benchmarks regarding removal of Symbol>>= do not inform the question 
of removing String>>=.  These are two different methods entirely, 
working in entirely different ways.

>  > String>>#= calls a primitive to
>>  compare string elements.  SequencableCollection loops through the
>>  interpreter cycle.  I'll bet the costs are substantial for plain
>>  string-string comparisons.
>
>I'll bet the same!

Why?
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