On 12 Feb 2012, at 9:59 AM, Christophe JAILLET wrote: > I also made some measurement. > The version with the test against *l is faster ONLY when the string to scan > is EMPTY. In this case it is more or less 50% faster to completely avoid the > call to isspace. > In ALL other cases, removing the first test is about 15% faster. > > > I have spotted more or less 20 of these in the code and I could provide a > patch in bugzilla to remove these useless tests if you think it is useful.
Definitely, +1. Regards, Graham --
