Faster leading blank patterns #625
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I came across this while using
GatherBy; without this PR,x = Range[5000]; First[Timing[GatherBy[x, OddQ]]]evaluates to29.0664, with this PR this changes to0.517357.The basic problem is described in the comment in
yield_choice: sub patterns that are very expensive to check are tested, even though the Blank match should be obvious.Seems to give a very slight but measurable improvement in runtime.
master.txt
fastblank.txt