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| From: | Stephen J. Turnbull |
| Subject: | Re: fix for bug 10994 breaks ido customizations in major way |
| Date: | Sun, 05 May 2013 23:31:04 +0900 |
Óscar Fuentes writes: > So it seems that delete-dups is faster for strings than symbols. My interpretation is different: something is broken in the benchmarks (or in the estimate that the CPUs are of comparable performance). Comparing symbols for equality is a pointer comparison. Comparing strings for equality is a pointer comparison, followed by more work (some variation on a memcmp) in case of failure.
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