> I recently modified Shout to use == instead of = when comparing a character
> from the input stream to a literal char ( e.g. next == $- ). It produced a
> measurable speed-up; but now I am feeling guilty ;)

Please note that:

    (Character value: 6543) == (Character value: 6543) -> false

This will break as soon as you use WideString as source-code. I had to
modify the runtime and compiler of SmaCC to send #= to characters to
fix some subtle bugs.

Cheers,
Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
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