Re: Make backward-word and backward-char as efficient as forward versions.

Wednesday, 22 November 2000

        On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 06:12:39PM +0900, Martin Buchholz wrote:
...
 No actual bug fixes here, just efficiency, consistency and
convenience. 
Just FYI[1] if you play with benchmarking this, backward and forward
moves have completely different efficiency patterns.  Forwards lookups
the first byte in a 256-entry table and adds the result to the pointer
while backwards decrements the pointers until a byte <= 0xa0 is found.

So, well, they are hard to compare...

  OG.

[1] Large Y.

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