Re: Vtable speed worry

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

David L . Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>No, because each table lookup takes less time than comparing one
>letter of a text string.

Er, I don't think so. 

A lookup takes serveral cycles on a RISC machine 
due to memory latency even to the cache. A pipelined string compare takes
less than a cycle per char.

Also what has comparing got to do with SvPVX ?

>
>>     sv->vtable->svpvx;
>> 
>> Isn't this going to really, really hurt?
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Nick Ing-Simmons