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Done with kinda-safe pointers.
In a real compiler the fast path of 'lookup' would ideally get inlined.
Excluding procedure-call overhead, the current implementation consumes 2
registers besides the input, and requires 9 instructions (2 push, 2 load,
compare, jump, increment, 2 pop). That's large enough that inlining may
become a trade-off. Even if we somehow magically had the registers already
loaded and available, we'd still need 4 instructions (1 pointer dereference,
compare, jump and increment). The price of safety.
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