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Issue 9.5

FEATURE

Optimizing Parsing Code

I feel the need. The need for speed.

Issue: 9.5 (July/August 2011)
Author: Brendan Murphy
Author Bio: Brendan is the founder of True North Software (http://www.TrueNorthSoftware.com) and creator of the Formatted Text Control (a word processor control for Real Studio). He worked for Motorola for many years and has extensive experience working on very large projects. He is a Sci-Fi fan and is still mourning the canceling of Stargate.
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A while back I implemented an optimization in my RTFParser for the Formatted Text Control which resulted in an overall measured speed increase of 33%! This optimization mainly applies to situations of parsing, but it can be applied to other scenarios if certain conditions are met.

Let's say you have a select statement in your code like the following.

select case token

case "alligator"

Do something specific...

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