Re: Speeding up recdescent...

Philip Newton <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:02:33 -0500, [email protected] (Ted Zlatanov)
> wrote:
>
>> Avoid the type_t declaration with an optional regex, you should use
>> 
>> type_t      :   /ADD|ADDRANGE|DELETE|DELETERANGE/
>
> Shouldn't the longer alternatives come before the shorter ones?
> Otherwise 'ADDRANGE' would be matched by the /ADD/ part (unless you
> anchor it, of chourse).

Good point in general, though I doubt it will improve performance much
for this specific case :)

Ted