Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Steve Holden a écrit : [...] >> >> Probably not really necessary, though, and they do say that premature >> optimization is the root of all evil ... > > I wouldn't call this one "premature" optimization, since it doesn't > change the algorithm, doesn't introduce (much) complication, and is > proven to really save on lookup time. > > Now I do agree that unless you have quite a lot of prefixes to test, it > might not be that necessary in this particular case...
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