Small performance increase in the symbol hash table.

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manifest

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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+C Small\sperformance\sincrease\sin\sthe\ssymbol\shash\stable.
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 # Remove this line to create a well-formed Fossil manifest.

manifest.uuid

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src/hash.c

@@ -166,12 +166,13 @@ static HashElem *findElementWithHash(
     count = pH->count;
   }
   if( pHash ) *pHash = h;
-  while( count-- ){
+  while( count ){
     assert( elem!=0 );
     if( sqlite3StrICmp(elem->pKey,pKey)==0 ){ 
       return elem;
     }
     elem = elem->next;
+    count--;
   }
   return &nullElement;
 }