In article <39AD60A7.E24533EC@faricy.net> , David Fontaine 
<dav### [at] faricynet>  wrote:

> What about control aids? They would process much faster in byte-code. Thorsten
> says it already does something like this though...

No, I didn't say it uses byte-code.  I said that it does what you were
suggesting, and that was "binary code" :-)

I interpreted "binary code" as using "hash value"...

A hash table is basically a binary shortcut for a string, so all you need to
do is generate the hash value and then compare two integers.  Of course
there will be duplicate hash values, so you then compare just a few strings
(or use another method - there are textbooks full of it).


    Thorsten


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