Store needle length

[snoyes]

Profiling a full screen search shows that calling len(needle) repeatedly adds nearly a second to the run time.

[TrangOul]

The same should be done in _steppingFind - len(needle) is called repeatedly in a loop.

[snoyes]

The same should be done in _steppingFind - len(needle) is called repeatedly in a loop.

Do you think that's why no performance gain was noted and so the step size was hardcoded to 1, hence _steppingFind is never used?

pyscreeze/pyscreeze/__init__.py

Lines 286 to 295 in 3fddc81

	# NOTE: After running tests/benchmarks.py on the following code, it seem that having a step
	# value greater than 1 does not give *any* significant performance improvements.
	# Since using a step higher than 1 makes for less accurate matches, it will be
	# set to 1.
	step = 1 # hard-code step as 1 until a way to improve it can be figured out.
	if step == 1:
	firstFindFunc = _kmp
	else:
	firstFindFunc = _steppingFind

[Avasam]

@snoyes This now has conflicts