On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Leonardo Herrera L. wrote:
>I have downloaded this patch, but before to install it, I need to ask if
>this is not very expensive in terms of speed (We have our mud running on
>a linux box with a 486 and 12 (!) mb of RAM! ouch!)...
If there is no match, you only do a strstr().
If it does match, it str_dup() and strcpy() and some other minor things.
Shouldn't cause too much extra work, but it will be more to do. (Maybe
0.5% processor time total for the MUD?) :)
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