• From: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• To: Christian Nentwich <c.nentwich@c...>
• Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:54:30 +0100 (BST)

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Christian Nentwich wrote:

> But isn't also true that you do not have to do this with a proper binary
> format, and are therefore accessing fewer characters, in which case your
> code will be faster? Probably not by a huge amount but it should be
> faster.

It definitely should be faster. The difference was probably due to levels
of tuning. Oleg's parser might have used regular expressions as opposed to
a hand-tuned parsing state machine, for example; implementing and
maintaining the latter isn't much fun :-(

> 
> Christian
> 

ABS

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