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Bug #9695

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Substring search exhibit quadratic behaviour.

Added by yxhuvud (Linus Sellberg) over 10 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
-
Target version:
-
ruby -v:
ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [x86_64-linux]
[ruby-core:61811]

Description

http://nelhagedebugsshit.tumblr.com/post/81301884746/surveying-various-languages-string-search-algorithms

12.upto(21).map do |i|
  needle='a'*(2**(i-1)) + 'b'
  haystack = 'a' * (2**i)
  a = Time.now; haystack.include?(needle); b=Time.now
  t = b-a
  p [t, t/haystack.length**2]
end

gives

[0.000237363, 1.4147937297821046e-11]
[0.000851294, 1.2685269117355347e-11]
[0.003081808, 1.1480629444122315e-11]
[0.013984239, 1.3023837469518185e-11]
[0.035659327, 8.302584057673811e-12]
[0.136899401, 7.968593912664801e-12]
[0.545703233, 7.941027186461724e-12]
[2.217092242, 8.065734589763452e-12]
[8.965134534, 8.15374235935451e-12]
[36.113581501, 8.211277759301083e-12]
=> 

Wasn't me that found it but it seems the founder hasn't reported it yet.

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