Re: string_char_to_byte and string_byte_to_char micro-optimisation

[Stefan Monnier]

>> be noticeably slowed down by charpos<->bytepos conversion in
>> "pathological" cases where we `start` in the middle of a longish string
>> and we immediately find a short match.
> Would this include cases where you iterate through string-match
> results in a loop, incrementing the `start` argument each time, as in
> replace-regexp-in-string?

Yes, that's exactly the case I had in mind.


        Stefan