On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:43:27 -0700, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > Jarkko a long time ago that swashes and regex character classes should > be replaced by inversion lists for efficiency. > > Inversion lists can be searched binarily. bsearch() is a standard C > library routine, but the only mention of it in Perl is in the POSIX > module where it says it is not furnished. This makes me think there > must be a problem with using the library routine. Is there? Seems to be available on both my oldest HP-UX as well as on my oldest AIX. Do you need a probe for it in Configure? -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next