[plt-scheme] String equality and other questions

On Sep 23, Deep wrote:
> While writing a game in scheme I recently ran into an issue where
> using equal? to compare strings would wait on the equality test and
> hog the cpu 60-70% of the time.  Oddly enough it worked sometimes. I
> looked through my code suspecting a recursive call gone amuck but
> eventually narrowed the issue down to this call.  I had
> unfortunately run into
> http://www.federated.com/~jim/schintro-v14/schintro_102.html when
> searching for "scheme string equality" and used equal?.
> 
> Once I looked again and changed the code to use string=? things work
> just fine. I wanted to know what does equal? do when used against
> strings. Why does it work sometimes and why does it just hang on
> other occasions?
> 
> Btw this is on Max OSX using the latest version of DrScheme.

They should have roughly the same runtime, maybe you're running into a
bug?

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