To make String and Symbol ANSI compliant regarding #=
Andrew C. Greenberg
werdna at gate.net
Mon Apr 17 01:27:32 UTC 2000
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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