Re: Compiling Elisp to a native code with a GCC plugin

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> So you end up with
>> (or (looking-at "foo ") (search-forward "\nfoo "))
>> which creates a regexp, anyway, and seems clumsy.
>
> Unless the text you match is short, the above is probably the fastest, indeed.
> There is no built-in support for the above idiom, OTOH, so you have to
> pay for the extra Elisp interpretation overhead of calling looking-at
> and then search-forward.

looking-at probably compiles the regexp, so there might be unnecessary
overhead there.  (The regexp compilation and caching and stuff.)

Is there any function like

(is-the-string-following-point-equal-to-this-string-p "foo ")

in Emacs that I've overlooked somehow?

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  address@hidden * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen