Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Regular expression syntax

[Colin P. A. <co...@co...>]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:

    Eric> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    >>>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams <co...@co...>
    >>>>>>> writes:
    Colin> For XML 1.1, the equivalent to \c is 3830417 bytes long.
    Colin> This is definitely too big, so something is wrong with the
    Colin> test program.
    >> No.  What is wrong is that this figure includes all as yet
    >> unallocated code-points (barring a few excluded ones).  For XML
    >> 1.0, the figure is 104080.  Either way, the strings are too
    >> long

    Eric> You're probably right. On the other hand is it that big
    Eric> compared to what you have generated in the classes
    Eric> ST_UNICODE_VNNN_*_ROUTINES?

Yes.
Because the latter are direct access (looking up values in an array),
whereas the former requires a search of the entire string (in the
worst case of no match).
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire