Re: [pcre-dev] Calculate minimum subject length

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Author: ph10
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To: ND
CC: Pcre-dev
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Calculate minimum subject length
On Sun, 18 Aug 2019, ND via Pcre-dev wrote:

> May be when meet (*ACCEPT) find_minlength must simply drop further
> calculations for current branch. So the current value of "branchlength" will
> be immediately considered as a minimum length of whole branch.


That was not easily possible in the past, but recently there was some
work done which might make it simple to do now. I will look further at
this.

> 2. If current branch is ended and calculated branchlength=0 then it seems no
> need to calculate the rest branches. May be this behaviour is present in code
> but I don't find it. If no, may be it can be useful.


Indeed, that might save a bit of time. I will look at that as well.


Philip

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