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From: aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why are character arrays special (e
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Date: 18 Feb 89 18:25:00 GMT
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>The reason this is a problem is because most of the time spent in a
>compiler is in the reading of source text and splitting it into tokens.
>(If this isn't so, then your symbol table implementation is botched or
>something else is.) 

(Or your compiler doesn't do very much work optimising.)