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[Mike Bonner]

Thanks Ali!

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike K, are you wrapping the inserts in a begin/commit block?  It makes a
> HUGE difference in speed. (otherwise, each is a separate transaction with
> all the overhead.  If wrapped, its a single transaction, and so much
> faster.
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yay, that's great news. Does LC 7 now do character references in constant
>> (albeit a bit slower) time? Or linear? Or...
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Ali Lloyd <ali at runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Apologies - hit send too early.
>> >
>> >
>> > 6.7.1
>> >
>> > There are 2931 lines in tstart
>> >
>> > There are now 14655 lines in tstart
>> >
>> > revers(ta) took 427 ms
>> >
>> > qrevers(ta) took 6 ms
>> >
>> > Output OK
>> >
>> > krevers(ta) took 412 ms
>> >
>> > Output OK
>> >
>> >
>> > 7.0.2 + bugfix
>> >
>> > There are 2931 lines in tstart
>> >
>> > There are now 14655 lines in tstart
>> >
>> > revers(ta) took 142 ms
>> >
>> > qrevers(ta) took 32 ms
>> >
>> > Output OK
>> >
>> > krevers(ta) took 258 ms
>> >
>> > Output OK
>> >
>> > On 10 February 2015 at 04:10, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > It seems that what we've lost with unicode/7 is the speed of
>> character
>> > > > references.
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > See Ali Lloyd's earlier response that the LC team have been watching
>> this
>> > > tread and it's clear that 'inefficient code' has been revealed. The LC
>> > team
>> > > are working on it and believe that for none Unicode chunking LC 7
>> should
>> > be
>> > > as fast as LC 6. There will be some slow down when Unicode is
>> involved.
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