On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:43:33AM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
> p.s. is this _really_ necessary:
>
> > if (name[1] == '_' &&
> > name[2] == 'P' &&
> > name[3] == 'A' &&
> > name[4] == 'C' &&
> > name[5] == 'K' &&
> > name[6] == 'A' &&
> > name[7] == 'G' &&
> > name[8] == 'E' &&
> > name[9] == '_' &&
> > name[10] == '_')
> > { /* __PACKAGE__ */
> > return -KEY___PACKAGE__;
> > }
>
> i.e. isn't strEQ going to shortcircuit just as fast as individual char
> tests???
We benchmarked it and the code generated by the current perl_keyword.pl was
the fastest. If you (or anyone else) are (is) curious, it would be
interesting to see what effect tweaking Devel::Tokenizer::C to use strEQ
and then regenerating gives.
Nicholas Clark
