another one of these loose ends... On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:51 AM, TNHarris <telliamed@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/14/2011 08:54 PM, TNHarris wrote: >> >> I measured utf8_stripspecials with English, German, and Japanese >> strings. (See attachment.) String lengths were: >> English: 14, 83, 167, 507, 69969 >> German: 16, 83, 170, 529, 69877 >> Japanese: 15, 88, 168, 533, 72266 >> >> old en: 0.17372, 0.82951, 1.71201, 5.29036, 530.94489 >> old de: 0.19019, 0.83116, 1.69232, 5.28697, 528.94762 >> old ja: 0.07924, 0.31162, 0.67059, 3.54457, 305.57479 >> new en: 0.33082, 0.46088, 0.61384, 0.82114, 89.03135 >> new de: 0.33938, 0.44337, 0.54182, 0.79181, 85.15497 >> new ja: 0.33939, 0.40425, 0.50494, 0.68881, 49.70783 >> >> It may be worth putting in a length test to use the faster function when >> the string is short. I should also try it using strtr. > > I couldn't think of a better way to improve this. The crossing point seems > to be between 24 and 32 characters. Could simply check the input length and switch to the faster implementation based on that? Tom can you open a pull request? Chris, can you please have a look at this again and merge it unless something speaks against it? Andi -- splitbrain.org -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://www.dokuwiki.org/mailinglist