Hi Henning, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote on Tuesday, September 06, 2005 6:09 PM:
[snip] > => charAt is 3-4 times faster when not matching and almost twice as > fast when matching. For the short case it is even faster. > > Get Test Class Source code from > http://henning.schmiedehausen.org/code/EndOfTest.java > > Another interesting point is that a method call seems to > impose just a very small overhead. Even though the charAt > test needs three of them in the worst case (length() and 2x > charAt()), it is still faster than the single endsWith() method call. Funny. Just by reviewing the code, I would not have expected to get sooo much difference. > Best regards > Henning (Micro-Optimizer and general nit-picker. ;-) ) <g> - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]