OpenEuphoria

Re: Small feature request for future EU versions

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Oct 22, 2004
• 676 views

On 22 Oct 2004, at 14:12, Juergen Luethje wrote:

> 
> 
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> > Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >> That's why they are useless for text written in many languages other
> >> than Englisch. That is strange for a product, that is intended for
> >> international use, especially because it is very easy to write better case
> >> conversion routines. Case conversion routines written without using the
> >> operators in the manner mentioned above are also faster. That's why RDS
> >> themselves don't use their own library routines for case conversion, when
> >> speed is important (Euphoria/bin/guru.ex, Euphoria/bin/search.ex) ...
> >
> > I didn't think that would be the case, but I just tested a simple lookup
> > table approach to case conversion and it runs in 75% of the time that
> > lower() uses.
> 
> I use personally a modified version of RDS' fast_lower() (URL might wrap):
>
> http://www.listfilter.com/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=9&fromYear=9&toMonth=9&t
> oYear=9&postedBy=Juergen+Luethje&keywords=lower
> 
> Applied to the whole text in Euphoria/Doc/Library.doc, it runs in 50% of
> the time that lower() uses. 

Just out of curiosity, did you compare to/against Jiri's lib in 
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/nlseu.zip
? I did something similar in mirc ages ago, but naturally it ran v e r y s l o w
l
y there.

Kat