While I'm not going to dive too deep into regexes (I like what little
sanity I have left, thanks :), here are a few opcodes I've been thinking of
for making REs faster:
=begin proposed_opcodes
=item makebitlist sx, sy
Makes the string in X a bitmap, with one bit set in it for each character
in Y. (So if Y was "AB" bits 64 and 65 would be set, assuming I remember my
ASCII)
=item ifin sx, iy, DEST
If bit Y of bitlist X is set branch to DEST
=item ifnotin sx, iy, DEST
If bit Y of bitlist X is not set branch to DEST
=end proposed_opcodes
I think we already have ops to put the integer value of a single character
(taken from an offset from the beginning of a string) into an integer
register, but if we don't we should.
Dan
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