On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Henrik Gedenryd wrote:

> Scott A Crosby wrote:
>
> > When working on a larger writeup on fulltext, I realized that having an
> > additional check of:
> >
> > self == aString ifTrue: [^ true].
>
> Just a tiny thing: How about putting this line first?
>

Excellent.. That may be worth a little more. I was primarly concerned with
saving a slow compare.

Scott


> > self == aString ifTrue: [^ true].
> > aString species == String ifFalse: [
> > aString isText ifTrue: [^ self = aString string].
> > ^ false].
> > ^ (self compare: self with: aString collated: AsciiOrder) = 2! !
>
> Should not be worse, may give more speed. So:
>
> = aString
>         "Answer whether the receiver sorts equally as aString.
>         The collation order is simple ascii (with case differences)."
>
>         self == aString ifTrue: [^ true].
>         ^aString species == String
>             ifFalse: [
>                 aString isText and: [self = aString string]].
>            ifTrue: [
>                 (self compare: self with: aString collated: AsciiOrder) = 2]
>
> Henrik
>

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