On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 9:38:40 PM UTC-4, Scott Jones wrote: > > I don't know how much time in compiling Julia is spent on seeing if a > character is a start identifier character or a plain identifier > character... but this should speed those checks up quite a bit. >
I strongly suspect that this is a negliglible fraction of the parsing time, which itself is a small fraction of the compilation time IIRC. Have you heard the phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil?"
