Hello Daniel, Wednesday, December 21, 2005, 5:20:18 PM, you wrote:
BM> I've finally performed test on amd64 and result is a same as on intel. BM> KMP always wins. So KMP is best suited for non indexed strings BM> and I guess should be used in library as prefered search/replace method. BM> This test favors straightforward search.
i'm 90% sure that straightforward method must be faster for one-time searches.
DF> I'm far less sure of that. If you have a really short search-pattern, I think DF> that probably straightforward search is indeed faster sorry, i mean exactly that, answering proposition to add this to library as a PREFFERED method. imho, typical usage of these routines is for short enough patterns and searched strings -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com