speed and shortening the long id

[Dr. Hawkins]

It is my understanding that reference to id is faster than name.

However, if i get the long id of something, I can get

field id 1 of group id 2 of group id 3 of card id 4 of stack "theSubStack"
of stack "/some/really/long/filename"

If I take
    word 1 to 3 of theLongId && word -6 to -4 of theLongId,

I get

field id 1 of  of stack "theSubStack"

Aside from working, it would seem that this would be faster to parse.

Would it?
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Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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