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Re: Possible problem with looking-back function


From: Davis Herring
Subject: Re: Possible problem with looking-back function
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:43:30 -0700 (PDT)
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> Shouldn't it return 1?

The algorithm searches backward until it finds a position from which there
is a match that extends to point.  Doing more would be quadratic in the
value of point (at least), so is considered too slow.

Davis

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