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npostavs@users.sourceforge.net writes:

> A solution could be to use syntax-ppss to go to start of string before
> parsing (though I wonder if syntax-ppss should be used more for the
> parsing itself in that case, it seems like there's a lot of work going
> that probably duplicates what's already being done):

Actually, it turns out using syntax-ppss in the loop is slower, at least
in the case of calling `pp' on a big list (which is a pessimal case for
a cache based parser).

Here is a patch (the first one just simplifies the code).