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From: sargas.usc.edu!tli@oberon.usc.edu (Tony Li)
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Subject: Re: LEX behaviour when given "large" automata.
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In fact, another cute trick is to toss in a simple hashing function.
Unless you've got lots of keywords, you usually can get away with
doing only one strcmp.

Tony
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