Re: benchmarking Flex practices

I wrote:

> > I'll look for other rules that could be more
> > easily optimized, but I'm not terribly optimistic.
>
> I found a possible other way to bring the size of the transition table
> under 32k entries while keeping the existing no-backup rules in place:
> Replace the "quotecontinue" rule with a new state. In the attached
> draft patch, when Flex encounters a quote while inside any kind of
> quoted string, it saves the current state and enters %xqs (think
> 'quotestop'). If it then sees {whitespace_with_newline}{quote}, it
> reenters the previous state and continues to slurp the string,
> otherwise, it throws back everything and returns the string it just
> exited. Doing it this way is a bit uglier, but with some extra
> commentary it might not be too bad.

I had an epiphany and managed to get rid of the backup states.
Regression tests pass. The array is down to 30367 entries and the
binary is smaller by 172kB on Linux x86-64. Performance is identical
to master on both tests mentioned upthread. I'll clean this up and add
it to the commitfest.

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