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Re: speed up u8_strstr


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: speed up u8_strstr
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:48:56 +0200
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Hi Pádraig,

> > the u8_strstr function.
> 
> I wonder could we speed that up for UTF-8
> by just deferring to strstr() ?

This is a good idea, because the naïve implementation of u8_strstr is
quadratic (O(n²)), whereas for strstr we now have an O(n) algorithm.

But at the same time, can you also try to apply the O(n) algorithm to
u16_strstr and u32_strstr?

Bruno



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