Subject: Re: bug#17514: 24.3.91; enhancement: byte-optimize looking-at-p

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 18:42:58 -0400

> I think (looking-at-p "a") can be safely optimized to
> (eq (following-char) ?a).
> I found there are 8 such codes in the current trunk, and some more possibly
> changable to looking-at-p from lookin-at.

I don't think it's worth the trouble.  Better just rewrite those
8 occurrences.

        Stefan