Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Attached is my current WIP patch.
A few quick eyeball comments:
> ! static __inline__ int
Under *no* circumstances use __inline__, as it will certainly break
every non-gcc compiler. Use "inline", which we #define appropriately
at need.
> ! * UTF8 has disjoint representations for first-bytes and
> ! * not-first-bytes of MB characters, and thus it is
> ! * impossible to make a false match in which an MB pattern
> ! * character is matched to the end of one data character
> ! * plus the start of another.
> ! * In character sets without that property, we have to use the
> ! * slow way to ensure we don't make out-of-sync matches.
I thought we'd concluded that this explanation is pseudo-science?
> ! * Branch for non-utf8 multi-byte charsets and also for
> single-byte
> ! * charsets which don't gain any benefir from the above
> optimisation.
spellcheck...
regards, tom lane
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