>> * find_start_sequence() is the main scanning function within
>> mod_include. There's some research in progress to try to speed
>> this up significantly.
>
> Based on the patches you submitted (and my quasi-errant formatting
> patch), I had to read most of the code in mod_include, so I'm more
> familiar with mod_include now. I do think there are some obvious
> ways to optimize find_start_sequence. I wonder if we could apply
> a KMP-string matching algorithm here. I dunno. I'll take a look
> at it though. Something bugs me about the restarts. I bet that
> we spend even more time in find_start_sequence when a HTML file
> has lots of comments. =-)
I suggested to Ian yesterday night that I'd look into a Boyer-Moore
matching algorithm. I'll work on that too.
Sander
