in reply to Re: Boyer Moore algorithm
in thread Boyer Moore algorithm

I would be surprised (though I haven't benchmarked) if a pure-Perl implementation of Boyer-Moore would beat Perl's native index.

I have. It's not even in the same eon.

And, whilst I won't dare to suggest my Inline::C implementation was perfect, even in C it didn't come close to beating index. The overhead of transitioning from Perl through Inline to C and back, wiped out any gains.

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