Easy as { 1 2 3 }? (when { 1 2 3 } ≠ { 1 2 3 })

[Joe Horn]

The LIN, TLIN, and SIMPLIFY commands all "normalize" a list of numbers the way you want (turning integers between -9 and +9 into their 5-nibble forms), but they are even slower than →STR OBJ→. For example, →STR OBJ→ on a list of 1000 long-form integer 1's takes 15+ seconds, but LIN takes 77+ seconds, TLIN takes 52+ seconds, and SIMPLIFY takes 73+ seconds. Unfortunately, all three functions, like →STR OBJ→, turn the integers into reals if approx mode is turned on.

Maybe exploring LIN, TLIN, and SIMPLIFY using Nosy would reveal what *they* do to normalize integers. Maybe just that code can be extracted (or called) to avoid the overhead of everything else that LIN, TLIN and SIMPLIFY do.