On 12/17/2014 09:21 AM, Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
If WCP != NULL, all of following code will be pruned, although I think that it is ignorable for the performance.if (wcp == NULL && always_character_boundary[*p]) return p;
Yes, and that's the point: we don't want this if-statement to be pruned if WCP != NULL. We want the code to return P right away in the typical case where P is at a character boundary. If MBP is way less than P, this will save the work of the following loop.
