I just pushed a patch to the main repository that I hope made the map-
index a little easier to read (if you ignore the variable capture
stuff in the macros) and also makes it more efficient along the lines
of what Alex suggests. This passes all tests under BDB.
Please check it out!
Ian
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Well, a quick experiment proves your point. I'm not sure why I didn't
take advantage of that earlier. There were a bunch of small
surprising issues that I recall making the code unpleasant, but I
can't recall the exact reasons. Given all the tests we have covering
this now, I think it's
