[Snowball-discuss] Re: question about an optimization

[Martin Porter]

Kai

You must understand that the C code is generated from a snowball script,
and that no attempt is made to alter the generated code to improve
performance. (The maintenance involved would be too great.)

Could you please direct comments on snowball to
snowball-discuss at lists.tartarus.org. 

Martin


On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 17:40 +0800, kai wang wrote:
> hi,
> in portuguese step 2 Verb suffixes, suffix end with "a e i m o r s u
> á" can be  found by an setence, if not end with these letters, then
> return
>  
> if
> 
> (text.length() < 2 || (!((2925090 >> (text[text.length() - 1] & 0x1f))
> & 1) && text[text.length() - 1] != 'á')) 
> 
> return;
> why is it not used in the code, is it because this operation won't
> imporove performance?
>  
> kai