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    Hi Nico,<br>
    <br>
    Thanks for reporting. Just pushed two updates that should improve
    the situation.<br>
    <br>
    Cheers,<br>
    <br>
    On 6/18/2023 4:40 PM, Nicolás Papagna Maldonado via Cuis-dev wrote:
    <blockquote
cite="mid:CADGn7BPsmLAWSXOn1NVUw-PT2F2zvAq4A2iyQsyxsZwne7mgng@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">
      <div dir="ltr">Hi folks!
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>I'm working on a tool to index source code to perform
          faster searches.</div>
        <div>While profiling the code that builds the index, I noticed
          that about 60% of the time spent is in <font face="monospace">UnicodeString>>#asLowercase</font>.</div>
        <div><br>
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        <div>It takes about 60% too (8 seconds) of the time spent when
          running the following experiment, too (see attached
          screenshot)</div>
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        <div><font face="monospace">CompiledMethod allInstances<br>
              do: [ :method | method sourceCode asLowercase ]<br>
              displayingProgress: 'Indexing...'.</font></div>
        <div><font face="monospace"><br>
          </font></div>
        <div>
          <div>This experiment was run on <font face="monospace">Cuis6.0-5797.image.</font></div>
          <div>VM version is:</div>
          <div><font face="monospace">5.0 5.20220602.1410 Mac OS X built
              on Jun  2 2022 15:55:29 UTC Compiler: Apple LLVM 12.0.0
              (clang-1200.0.32.29) [Production Spur 64-bit x64 VM]<br>
              CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-dtl.3185 uuid:
              0e7f07b8-eed6-4362-b223-86c98594ddb9 Jun  2 2022<br>
              StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-mt.3179 uuid:
              c6fbcb07-2a19-ed4f-8b40-9c119a70882a Jun  2 2022<br>
              VM: 202206021410
              <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:runner@Mac-1654183989075.local:work/opensmalltalk-vm/opensmalltalk-vm">runner@Mac-1654183989075.local:work/opensmalltalk-vm/opensmalltalk-vm</a><br>
              Date: Thu Jun 2 16:10:44 2022 CommitHash: c9fd365<br>
              Plugins: 202206021410
              <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:runner@Mac-1654183989075.local:work/opensmalltalk-vm/opensmalltalk-vm">runner@Mac-1654183989075.local:work/opensmalltalk-vm/opensmalltalk-vm</a></font><br>
          </div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>Is there any way to improve its performance?</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>Thanks in advance,</div>
          <div>Nico PM</div>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Juan Vuletich
cuis.st
github.com/jvuletich
researchgate.net/profile/Juan-Vuletich
independent.academia.edu/JuanVuletich
patents.justia.com/inventor/juan-manuel-vuletich
linkedin.com/in/juan-vuletich-75611b3
twitter.com/JuanVuletich</pre>
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