An Optimization Exercise
Nick Craver tweets out snippets of the Stack Overflow code base occasionally. About a week ago he showed off a ContainsToken method which has been tuned for performance. This set off a little bit of a benchmarking contest. My final attempt (which is among the fastest) ended up using a lot of tricks, which I…
Kevin Montrose
Team Lead, Data - Former
Nick Craver tweets out snippets of the Stack Overflow code base occasionally. About a week ago he showed off a ContainsToken method which has been tuned for performance. This set off a little bit of a benchmarking contest.
My final attempt (which is among the fastest) ended up using a lot of tricks, which I think may be of general interest – so I’m going to walk through how the code works.
