[m-rev.] for post-commit review: speed up set_ordlist.union_list

[Zoltan Somogyi]

For review by anyone. The third attachment is the benchmark program.
(Its input was the output of "cat *.m" in the library directory.)
Would anyone object to adding it to benchmarks/progs in a new subdir?

Zoltan.
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