Re: benchmarking Flex practices

I wrote:

> I no longer use state variables to track scanner state, and in fact I
> removed the existing "state_before" variable in ECPG. Instead, I used
> the Flex builtins yy_push_state(), yy_pop_state(), and yy_top_state().
> These have been a feature for a long time, it seems, so I think we're
> okay as far as portability. I think it's cleaner this way, and
> possibly faster.

I thought I should get some actual numbers to test, and the results
are encouraging:

           master       v10
info       1.56s        1.51s
str        1.18s        1.14s
unicode    1.33s        1.34s
uescape    1.44s        1.58s


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