<html><head></head><body lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Comparing strings is CS101. If map is a linear search, that should be something to improve.</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I'm assuming you read the code </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Robert Paprocki</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Monday, November 14, 2016 8:56 AM</div><div><b>To: </b>nginx@nginx.org</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>nginx@nginx.org</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: Bloking Bad bots</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 8:51 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@lazygranch.com" target="_blank">lists@lazygranch.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="en-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:initial"> <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I'd be shocked if the map function doesn't use a smart search scheme rather than check every item. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You're in for a bit of a shock then. It is a linear search :p Curious as to what you think it should look like instead?</div><div><br></div><div>Getting back to the original question though, a map should (_should_) be faster than building a larger and larger regex, particularly if the map is doing string comparison as opposed to regex searching for each map member. Building large alternation-oriented regular expressions can get pretty expensive rather quickly, though some of that will depend on the regex engine and compile-time options (e.g, are you using PCRE JIT, etc).</div></div></div></div>
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