Hello, for this use case people typically use Symbols (much faster).
Now you are right we may add a shortcut in string comparison. 2014-05-26 9:51 GMT+02:00 Philippe Marschall < [email protected]>: > Hi > > I have been investigating why Dictionary look up performance with String > keys is not as good as I would expected. Something I noted is that String > >> #= is implemented in terms of #compare:with:collated:. There is no short > circuit if Strings are not the same size. In my case some Strings have the > same prefix but a different length eg 'Content-Type' and 'Content-Length'. > In that case a #compare:with:collated: is performed even though we know in > advance the answer will be false because they have different sizes. > > Cheers > Philippe > > >
