stupid atom question

There are many clients of atoms that will strictly use ascii names.  For 
example, the directory service providers use the atoms to beat doing a 
strcmp on string keys.  these keys are defined to be ascii.  maybe these 
clients of "ascii only atoms" should use a seperate table?  Maybe there 
should be a way to create an Atom from an ascii string without converting?


Thoughts?

Doug Turner
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