<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Laurent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laurent.orseau@gmail.com" target="_blank">laurent.orseau@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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* The `case' form dispatches on characters, fixnums, symbols, and<br>
keywords in logarithmic time. (Thanks to Jon Zeppieri.)<br></blockquote></div><div><br>No hidden constant for small dispatchers compared to the previous version?<br> </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>
Small case expressions (< 12 constants) are linear, not logarithmic, and don't have any of the triple-dispatch overhead. </div></div></div>