JS document.xxx is really slow

[Koos Vriezen]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, David Faure wrote:

> About the patch: some namings are a bit confusing, e.g.
> TagLength has a length attribute, but NamedTagLengthDeterminer has one too
> (which is in fact 3, the number of tags to look for - can you call that one numberOfTags or nrTags?)

Sure :)

> In fact I would even suggest that a private helper method might be enough for
> this, an actual separate class isn't necessary (since it's created/destroyed each
> time). The private member vars would become the local vars of the private method.

No, because its a recursive func, would need to pass all these
variables each time. I think using a function object is faster (it's also
created on the stack here).
(Well, I use it as a function object, not sure if I should add
 'void operator (...)' to make it a real function object...)

> Well, that's just nitpicking for code readability, I hope you'll forgive me for that :)

Of course :). I even appreciate these kind of comments (I always find it
hard to come up with good names, english is so much more difficult than
c++)

> Feel free to apply whichever variant (btw some comments need to be moved, etc.).

Ok and I'll delete all those lines that are now commented out in this
patch.

Koos