On 20/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas Lindgren</b> <<a href="mailto:thomasl_erlang@yahoo.com">thomasl_erlang@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>--- Robert Virding <<a href="mailto:rvirding@gmail.com">rvirding@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> On 20/12/2007, mats cronqvist<br>> <<a href="mailto:mats.cronqvist@ericsson.com">mats.cronqvist@ericsson.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > rumour has it that robert virding is working on<br>> a new erlang<br>> > implementation; couldn't find any code by googling<br>> though.<br>><br>><br>> Yes, I do have one that works but I haven't released
<br>> it yet. Some info:<br><br>Sounds great, a big step forward, but as always some<br>additional features may be desirable (sorry!):<br><br>1. Does it support efficient operation on<br>strings-as-binaries in addition to lists? [major]
</blockquote><div><br>Yes, it works directly on binaries and is as efficient (inefficient) as working on lists. Actually in R11 stepping down a binary was slightly slower than stepping over a list. I haven't measured yet in R12.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2. Are wide characters handled? [pretty useful too]</blockquote><div><br>Well, yes, but probably not as you mean it. If you operate on a list then your list can contain any size characters. It doesn't try to parse the list/binary to build characters.
<br><br>Actually depending on how you define your regular expression you can use it on lists of anything.<br></div><br>Robert<br></div><br>