Re: Case mapping of sharp s

[grischka]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Also how can it happen that a C function varies between 4 and 90
> > seconds for the same action.
>
> I have no explanation for that.

Turned out that the time of backwards simple_search depends mostly
on the number of buffer markers in the buffer.

That's because of CHAR_TO_BYTE in the inner loop and then because
that one doesn't mind checking hundreds of markers for each single
char in the file.

--- grischka