* it all strings are converted to UTF8, leading, trailing and multiple
* spaces collapsed, converted to lower case and the leading SEQUENCE header
* removed. In future we could also normalize the UTF8 too. By doing this
- * comparison of Name structures can be rapidly perfomed by just using
+ * comparison of Name structures can be rapidly performed by just using
* memcmp() of the canonical encoding. By omitting the leading SEQUENCE name
* constraints of type dirName can also be checked with a simple memcmp().
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