Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Through some more work with printf, I have to agree with bearophile, this lookup function is horrid.
It is now, but when it was originally written (maybe as long as 20 years ago) there were only a few strings in the table, and it was fine. It's just outlived its design. Clearly, it should now be a hash table.
Just goes to show how useful a profiler is.