Re: [HACKERS] ecpg enhance patch

> On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 04:49:19PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > Here is a patch that would enhance the efficiency in that skip strings
> > which have been already checked. The patch was made by Kazuko
> > Nakagawa. Michael, can you comment on this?
>
> The problem is that the current system allows insertions of placeholders
> which are later replaced by values. After applying this patch this will no
> longer work. But with some changes we might get almost the same result.
>
> After the p = next_insert(...) p-newcopy characters are already clean. This
> should be used. I just noticed that there is a ugly hack in there anyway,
> namely the string length calculation via substraction of two pointers. I

Thank you for your comment. I'll foward it to the author of the patch.

> wonder if this works with multibyte strings.

Should be no problem.
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Tatsuo Ishii