Re: [htdig-dev] Re: Retriever::got_word and word components

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Geoff Hutchison:
> It seems like we could save some time here and just return if the word 
> is short and do this even sooner in the method, e.g.
>      if (trackWords)
>      {
> 	if (strlen(word) < minimumWordLength)
> 		return;
> 	String w = word;
> 	...
> 
> This saves updating the wordRef, the word component code, etc. Anything 
> obviously wrong with this?

For the sake of tidiness, I'd write it as:

    if (trackWords && strlen(word) >= minimumWordLength)
    {
      String w = word;
      ...

but yes, this seems quite reasonable to me.  I simply missed that
opportunity for optimisation when I added the compound word handling code.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)