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

[Leo]

On 2010-09-15 17:05 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Leo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 2010-09-15 16:51 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Can you build one using compare-strings?
>
> More likely compare-buffer-substrings.  It would be nicer if
> compare-strings just accepted a buffer as either of its string
> arguments.  Sure, one can use buffer-substring-no-properties with
> compare-strings or (with-temp-buffer (insert ... with
> compare-buffer-substrings, but that feels clumsy in comparison.

These two functions look similar, any idea why not extend
compare-strings as David suggested?

Leo