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On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Doug MacEachern wrote:
>
> the macros existed in the 5.000 release along with the avoidance of them
> in these cases. maybe it made a bigger difference back on 1994-ish
> hardware? its a question of {read,grep}abilty vs. performance, which
> tradeoff is more worthwhile in this case i'm not sure. the avoidance of
Okay, how about this crazy idea? Revert the code to its original form,
but add the unoptimized "canonical" expressions as comments.
Of course, that's still only worth the trouble if the speed difference
is actually measurable in practice.
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Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
"So if you were shot with a .38, the homeopathic treatment is probably to
deal with the remaining problem with a .22." -- Zed Pobre in the SDM
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