Re: Is X'ABCD' notation of general interest?

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> wrote:

> Something like the following (completely untested) code might be
> faster than using `string-to-number':

If you try to micro-optimize, you really should do some
benchmarking... ;)

`string-to-number' is a C function.  It is nearly impossible to write
anything faster in Lisp.  On my system `string-to-number' is more than 10x
faster than your function.


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher