Re: [tlug] searching for kanji, simple state machine

[Ian Wells <ijw@example.com>]

On 19/01/06, David Riggs <dariggs@example.com> wrote:

But anyway, I thought that whal perl bragged about was being as fast as
such a machine, once the search was compiled (which is trivial in this
case.)

Perl is going to be close to this speed for in-memory searching.  However, it's not offering you the option of file-stream searching, which should be faster on small-memory machines.