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		Scaevolus on March 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Changes to Ragel in Response to the CloudFlare Inc... Bounds checking slices makes code around 1% slower. It's worth it, but not free.

Manishearth on March 6, 2017 [–]

I mean, that was the fix in this situation too, anyway. "free" depends on what you're comparing it to.

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