On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 10:49 PM +0000 8/10/02, Nicholas Clark (via RT) wrote: > >Appended patch makes the assembler faster. The speedup was 1.8% on on machine > >I tested on, 1.3% on another. (Cumulative time to loop round all the .pasm > >files created by the test suite and assemble them) > >I feel there' still a way to go with speedups. > > Applied, thanks. D'you have the message number for the patch in > limbo, perchance?
[perl #16024] But it won't apply cleanly as some bugger called "Nicholas Clark (via RT)" :-) has just sent a patch that reworked the context line $line=~s/(^\s+|\s+$)//g; # Remove leading and trailing whitespace as two separate regexps without the alternation. (that was the only non ///o bit of the other patch. Not benchmarked, but I seem to remember reading that two regexps for that is faster than alternation. And why that ///g? Nicholas Clark