Re: [PATCH] add 'string-distance' to calculate Levenshtein distance

[chen bin]

Hi, Eli,
As you suggested, I re-write the code using 'FETCH_STRING_CHAR_ADVANCE'.

I did some peformance test.

My original wide character array solution is two time fast as current solution.

But I understand now we avoid repeated memory allocation for wide
character array. So the generic performance looks OK to me.

I also implemented the byte comparing version. It's 4 times as fast. And I do
need use it to compare file path in my package 'counsel-etags'.

That's the major reason why I started this task

The fille path couldn't contain any funny characters (emoji). so
it'sperfectly fine
to use byte comparing version.

Regards,
Chen

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: chen bin <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:32:23 +1000
>>
>> I  intentionally avoid cc `emacs-devel` in my previous mail  because I
>> feel `culture/race` is sensitive thing.
>
> Please don't.  There's no sensitivity about this stuff on emacs-devel,
> in my long experience with Emacs development.
>
>> I will study your mail and figure out a better solution.
>
> Thanks.  Feel free to ask more questions, and sorry again for my
> stupid typo mistake.
>



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