[Users] Faster to do avp_printf();avp_check OR search()?

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Kanakatti,

for extracting an hdr into an AVP, you can use avp_write() instead of 
avp_printf() - it's faster  since it's not so complex ;)

regards,
bogdan

Kanakatti Mahesh Subramanya wrote:

> True. and agreed.
>
> I was actually trying to be more general, i.e., if I wanted to do some 
> processing on the contents of a specific header, would it be more 
> efficient to extract that header using avp_printf(), and then search 
> within it, as compared to just searching on the whole message
>
> The answer, as it turns out, is that yes it is probably faster 
> (limited to walking through and extracting just the header), and safer 
> (less chance of matching against something else altogether)
>
> thanx
>
> Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
>
>> If you want just to check if there is a Refer-To header, you can use 
>> the function is_present_hf() from textops module. This is the fastest 
>> way to check if a header exists.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> On 08/24/05 16:12, Kanakatti M. Subramanya wrote:
>>
>>> e.g., if I want to do something if there is a Refer-To header in the 
>>> message,
>>> am I better off doing
>>> avp_printf("$someAvp", "$rt");
>>> avp_check("$rt", "re/.../i");
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> search("/.../");
>>> Just want ot know whether to get started rewriting all the 
>>> "search()" strings i have in my ser.cfg....
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
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