Edi Weitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (I suppose that simple strings in CMUCL are just sequences of octets > in memory as in C so maybe what's lacking is a Lisp idiom[1] to just > advance a pointer to the current character?) Now that I think of it a little bit more another reason might be that in C CHAR= is basically equivalent to comparing two fixnums while CL is more general. This might also be a reason for Perl being faster. Edi.
