On Jan 7, 2011, at 2:04 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > 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 :) >
/a.*b/ How big will that be?
