On 1/7/2011 9:58 AM, "Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group" wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jim Jagielski >> Sent: Freitag, 7. Januar 2011 16:57 >> >> I think it's just the nature of the beast... at least, >> the nature of the design where if we need to be able to >> scan between buckets, we need to flatten and that takes >> time and space... lots o' space. > > Agreed.
Nonsense. It simply needs to be read into a pattern match buffer of the largest pattern space *2, and shifted out by halves. Flatten is was a quick and dirty API that should never have left alpha :)