27524 - General perf work for parsing engine

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[rickg]

This is the list of tasks we're currently working on in the parsing engine to 
enhance performance:

Task:   Reduce use of nsString in general
Status: Done; rickg -- 7Feb99

Task:   Reduce copying string data
Status: WIP; enhanced by rickg on 7Feb99 to eliminate str copies 
        use GetIdentifier() rather than ReadIdentifier().
        Harish has also updated Consume() methods to eliminate coping.

Task:   Increase perf of substring searching of ranges
Status: WIP -- should land on during M14.

Task:   Eliminate nodes, use only tokens;
Status: WIP -- harishd

Comment 1

[rickg]

Task: Speed mods for 2 highly used string routines: toInteger() and Find().
Status: ToInteger() is 3-4x faster; Find() is up to 5x faster (some contexts)

Comment 2

[rickg]

Closing this placeholder out. We'll open a new one after the next round of 
quantify runs.

Comment 3

[bsharma]

updated qa contact.

Comment 4

[bsharma]

Verified on:
build: 2001-07-02-04-Trunk
platform: WinNT

Marking verified as per above developer comments.