- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:53:49 -0800
- To: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Monday 2009-02-02 09:53 -0800, Phillips, Addison wrote: > On the question of performance, Anne's point about the comparison > is incomplete. Yes, you only do a strcmp() in your code today. No, we're not using strcmp() in our code today, because it's too slow. We're doing atomization of many things to make comparison faster than strcmp. > However, there are two problems with this observation. > > First, any two strings that are equal are, well, equal. > Normalizing them both won't change that. So an obvious performance > boost is to call strcmp() first. Most string comparisons fail, so failing quickly is significantly more important than succeeding quickly. -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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