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Profiling startup with the new effects code exposed some performance gotchas. The objective is to reduce allocation of std::string temporaries, especially when looking up node path names. Also, I changed some paths to initialize strings with strings instead of char *; this causes less allocation, at least with glibc. Also, eliminate the old version of find_node and its helper functions by writing the template version of find_node_aux to handle an explicit index parameter. Also, add const char[] as an internal property type This doesn't actually add a new type to the property system, but allows using character arrays as arguments to certain templates.
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