[squeak-dev] The Inbox: Regex-Core-ct.61.mcz
Rolandas Guobys
rolandasguobys at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 16:48:00 UTC 2021
please don't send me more letters !!!
> On 2021-07-09, at 19:26, Rolandas Guobys <rolandasguobys at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> please don't send me more letters !!!
>
>>> On 2021-07-09, at 18:10, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
>>>
>> Hi Christoph,
>>
>>> On Thu, 8 Jul 2021, christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Levente,
>>> two very fair points, thank you for the feedback! Revisiting #escapeString: again, we do not even need to compile a new regex, which is really expensive, but we can use a simple loop instead:
>>
>> I thought you deliberately wanted to use regular expressions there.
>>
>>> | special |
>>> special := self specialCharacters.
>>> ^ String streamContents: [:stream |
>>> aString do: [:char |
>>> (special includes: char) ifTrue: [stream nextPut: $\].
>>> stream nextPut: char]]
>>> Which is 90% faster than the original approach. :-)
>>
>> If you want the "Best Performance (tm)", there is a Squeak-specific pattern for these kinds of string-rewrite methods, which consists of a precomputed character set and the use of #new:streamContents:, #indexOfAnyOf:startingAt: and #next:putAll:startingAt:.
>> String's #format:, #expandMacrosWithArguments:, #unescapePercentsRaw and #jsonWriteOn: (only if you have JSON-ul.56 in your image) all use that pattern.
>>
>>
>> Levente
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