At 03:07 PM 2/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:09:31 +0100
Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 08:53 AM 2/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >Hartmut Henkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > > So there might be some corner for improvement. Using strcmp() the
> > > reverse way seems not to speed up things; how to write a more
> > > sophisticated inequality-checker?
> >
> >Heiko stated that he used a hash table for this. This will speed up
> >things dramatically.
>
> but if i remember right he only looked at the first 8 chars (assuming
> berry) which is not that useful for texnansi-* files -)
>
> the best way (imo) is to let later entries overload previous ones, so not
> much checking is needed at all;

I remember this discussion on the pdftex-list and can still not understand
why we should look for overloaded entries. pdftex should take the first match.
no, the last one, since users may want to overload the defaults (quite important if you use pseudo caps/slant/extend)

Hans
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