It's a nice improvement, but isn't it feature freeze with "only bugfixes, 
but no new features"?

Levente

On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:

> Fabio Niephaus uploaded a new version of Collections to project The Trunk:
> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Collections-fn.869.mcz
>
> ==================== Summary ====================
>
> Name: Collections-fn.869
> Author: fn
> Time: 3 January 2020, 10:27:08.945712 am
> UUID: c29ef38b-f152-468e-bac9-74515c099ac4
> Ancestors: Collections-nice.868
>
> Add quick-check for identity to String>>sameAs: (similar to Character>>sameAs:).
>
> Example:
> [MenuIcons smallInspectItIconContents sameAs: MenuIcons smallInspectItIconContents] bench
>
> Before:
> 1,740,000 per second. 574 nanoseconds per run. 0 % GC time.
>
> After:
> 94,800,000 per second. 10.5 nanoseconds per run. 0 % GC time.
>
> =============== Diff against Collections-nice.868 ===============
>
> Item was changed:
>  ----- Method: String>>sameAs: (in category 'comparing') -----
>  sameAs: aString
>  	"Answer whether the receiver sorts equal to aString. The
>  	collation sequence is ascii with case differences ignored."
> + 	self == aString ifTrue: [ ^true ].
>  	^(self compare: aString caseSensitive: false) = 2!