On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:29, Daniel Hartmeier wrote:
> The question is whether it's worth the additional cost of trying to jump
> further down. I did benchmarks with other versions, like evaluating all
> parameters of the rule (not aborting on the first mismatch), then
> finding the largest skip step among the mismatching ones. But that
> turned out to be slower on average, due to the cost of finding the
> highest skip step.
Obviously adding checks will slow down the whole thing, but IMHO it's better a
higher time for optimizing, that's made before using a ruleset, if it brings
better performance every time a packet is evaluated.
This will be felt by who doesn't use quick on each line.
Ed
