bug#58168: string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies

[Mattias Engdegård]

14 okt. 2022 kl. 17.31 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

> I fail to see how the number of times we'd traverse the strings is of
> concern, as long as it's fast enough.

Unfortunately it isn't. Always reading the whole string wouldn't give us decent 
string comparison performance. (Doing it twice doesn't help.)

If the current code turns out to not to be fast enough then other well-known 
techniques can be applied, but I'm done for now.