Re: Surrogates and character representation William D Clinger 27 Jul 2005 15:16 UTC
Per Bothner wrote: > Random accesses to a position in a string that has not > been previously accessed is not in itself useful. Untrue. The Boyer-Moore algorithm for fast string searching uses random accesses to positions that have not been previously accessed [1]. Will [1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/best-ideas/string-searching/