On 2008.04.25 13:42:04 -0700, Jason Dagit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled 1.9K 
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>    On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>      gwern0:
>      > Fri Apr 25 16:01:53 EDT 2008  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>      >   * fpstring.c: switch a memchr for memrchr
>      >   See <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue814>; memrchr speeds up is_funky 
> quite a bit and thus
>      helps whatsnew -s. It doesn't seem to break (any more) tests.
>
>
>      memrchr isn't available on BSDs.
>
>    Furthermore, I didn't see enough tests in Gwern's bug update to convince 
> me that the
>    difference in run-times is attributable to the use of memrchr.
>
>    Jason

I'm not sure how I could've tested it any more: I used a fresh darcs repo, made 
the simple change, compiled and installed, and tested it on a 9.5GB file 3 or 4 
times, each time getting a roughly 40 or 50 second result from 'time'; I then 
in the same repo tested three or four times using my system's darcs binary (or 
installing from one of my other darcs darcs repos) and get roughly 1m30s 
timings.

A single change, which leads to an expected difference multiple times; what did 
I miss?

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