On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:59 AM <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Without having looked all that much at the code: > > When the parser sees some \blabla it will generally first have to check > for a keyword and (when it has no match) afterwards for a variable with > that name, and a lot of those are actually music functions these days > that used to be keyword. > > Wouldn't it make sense to just convert \xxx into a symbol early on in > the lexer? That is essentially a hash code, and we have lookups for > those. It seems wasteful to use two completely different ways of > hashing a string in succession when we can just turn this into a symbol > early on and work with that instead. > > https://codereview.appspot.com/549920043/
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