[squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-dev] String >> #=

Marcus Denker marcus.denker at inria.fr
Tue May 27 08:11:16 UTC 2014


On 27 May 2014, at 09:44, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at netcetera.ch> wrote:

> On 27.05.14 06:45, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Phillipe,
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Philippe Marschall
>> <philippe.marschall at netcetera.ch
>> <mailto:philippe.marschall at netcetera.ch>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Hi
>> 
>>    I have been investigating why Dictionary look up performance with
>>    String keys is not as good as I would expected. Something I noted is
>>    that String >> #= is implemented in terms of
>>    #compare:with:collated:. There is no short circuit if Strings are
>>    not the same size. In my case some Strings have the same prefix but
>>    a different length eg 'Content-Type' and 'Content-Length'. In that
>>    case a #compare:with:collated: is performed even though we know in
>>    advance the answer will be false because they have different sizes.
>> 
>> 
>> Why not rewrite
> 
> Yes, that would be my proposal as well.
> 

Ok, I have added an issue:

	https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/13277/Speed-up-String



	Marcus



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