Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I'm still a bit worried about applying it unless it gets some
>> adaptive behaviour or something so that we don't cause any serious
>> performance regressions in some cases.
>
> I'll try to come up with something. At the most conservative end, we
> could fall back to the current method on the first escape, quote or
> backslash character.
>
>
That's far too conservative, I think. Somewhere a bit short of your
observed breakeven point seems about right.
cheers
andrew