I went ahead and tried to implement it just because I was interested in the
idea. I got a version working that works directly on the underlying
c-string data and it actually seems to be about double the speed, and uses
about 25% less memory than the symbol(string()) form.
Could you elaborate further on your second point? I don't see what the
problem would be with making the symbol API look more analogous to the
string API.
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 1:12:01 PM UTC-5, Ivar Nesje wrote:
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> I like $(symbol("gen_$x")) better than $(:gen_ * x), and others might
> agree. There is also an issue about implementing too much of the string API
> for symbols, because they have different performance characteristics.
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