13:34:17Bikean implementation with the sequences extension can easily define (cl:coerce 'simple-string extended-sequence) to work. of course it'll cons
13:44:49Bike(except it also computes the applicable methods, and returns an actual function rather than a form or method, and etc)
13:46:41Bikegiven that ppcre actually works with indices directly, i don't think using just the iteration protocol would be enough, basically
13:48:29scymtymgiven the number of special variable accesses, a specialized character-access function closed over the input sequence could actually be faster than the current code (maybe depending on the implementation)
13:49:28Bikeyeah, i was also thinking schar could dispatch on character versus base-char arrays