By not storing item index twice, we can cut down the size of Result
struct and now it makes more sense to store and pass Results by values.
Benchmarks show no degradation of performance by additional pointer
indirection for looking up index.
- Make structs smaller
- Introduce Result struct and use it to represent matched items instead of
reusing Item struct for that purpose
- Avoid unnecessary memory allocation
- Avoid growing slice from the initial capacity
- Code cleanup
In the best case (all ascii), this reduces the memory footprint by 60%
and the response time by 15% to 20%. In the worst case (every line has
non-ascii characters), 3 to 4% overhead is observed.
Junegunn Choi