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> |> I don't think I've ever seen code rely on it, but I like it from
> |> a performance point of view.
> If you care about performance you should eq the symbols, not their names.

I'm only talking about the performance of `symbol-name'.
And I tend to measure performance in MB or MB/s (where less-is-better)
rather than in Mops/s.


	Stefan