Comment by nextaccountic
5 days ago
> input size normal hardened speedup w/ hardened
> 1,000 0.7ms 28us 25x
> 5,000 18ms 146us 123x
> 10,000 73ms 303us 241x
> 50,000 1.8s 1.6ms 1,125x
Why is there a normal mode if hardened mode is faster for all input sizes?
Sorry, finished the post just now with more comparisons on other inputs
The reason is just that the normal mode is faster in average non pathological cases
Could you have a heuristics based on the input size and the pattern to decide what to use?
Yes, this is entirely possible. you can even explore the automaton eagerly and detect if it's possible to loop from an accepting state to a nonaccepting one.
Exciting stuff for future work
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