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[Mike Bonner]

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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