Comment 1 for bug 1004501

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Paul Khuong (pvk) wrote : Re: make-array with non-constant :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8) conses a lot

sb!impl::%vector-widetag-and-n-bits and %complex-vector-widetag punt to SUBTYPEP when adding a set of EQUAL tests would catch nearly all cases. The use of CASE instead of lookup tables for the fast (non-subtypep) paths is also questionable, but any difference is probably marginal.