Feature #5877: Poor performance of initial and final UTF-8 substrings

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[nex3 (Natalie Weizenbaum)]

Currently, taking the substring of a UTF-8 string always takes time proportional to the length of the string. While this is necessary in the general case, there are many common cases where it could be much faster, in particular when the substring is near the beginning of the end of the superstring. In those cases, the operation should only be proportional to the length of the substring.

Gist with reproduction and more detailed analysis forthcoming.

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Feedback

[kosaki (Motohiro KOSAKI)]

You didn't write gist url. I haven't catch your point.

[cjheath (Clifford Heath)]

On 20/01/2012, at 1:08 PM, Motohiro KOSAKI wrote:

Bug #5877: Poor performance of initial and final UTF-8 substrings
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5877

Author: Nathan Weizenbaum
Status: Feedback
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [x86_64-linux]

Currently, taking the substring of a UTF-8 string always takes time proportional to the length of the string. While this is necessary in the general case, there are many common cases where it could be much faster, in particular when the substring is near the beginning of the end of the superstring. In those cases, the operation should only be proportional to the length of the substring.

This discussion from ten years ago is relevant to performance workarounds for UTF-8:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/45935?45702-47288

Clifford Heath.

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
• Status changed from Feedback to Rejected
• Priority changed from Normal to 3

Not a bug. "forthcoming" did not come.
Please try to make your proposal self-contained.

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Yusuke Endoh [e-mail]