Re: [ANN] tnetstrings.lua 1.0.0

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Josh Simmons:

>> You should avoid string copies, perhaps by changing the signature of
>> parse() from parse(string) to parse(string, i, j), where parse() only
>> operates on the substring consisting of the characters [i, j].
>
> They're not copies, and you can't avoid the work here.

You can surely copy each character at most once, independently of the
structure nesting depth.  This will address the quadratic behavior.