5:25:39beachphantomics: What would be the point of breaking backward compatibility for the very minor convenience to a very small number of users of Common Lisp?
8:05:28hayleyI think I found the one good use for SIMPLE-BASE-STRING: one can scan at about 11 Gcharacters/second with BASE-CHAR, as opposed to "only" 4.7 Gcharacters/second with CHARACTER, because one can stuff more characters in a vector register.
8:32:06jackdanielfir really really long strings also the memory consumption drops
8:47:53hayleyNow that you mention it, I guess my Xorg.0.log nearly fits in L1 cache then (just 2KB short or so). Though I don't think I'm memory bound still.