This fork was created to prove that StringScore provides reasonable performance. The question about it was raised on the Stackoverflow question Objective-c: Fast Fuzzy Search Match.

Mainly, the setup code is pulled out of the scoreAgainst: method, thus 3 new methods are added to NSString+StringScore:

- (NSCharacterSet *)invalidCharacterSet;
- (NSString *)decomposedStringWithInvalidCharacterSet:(NSCharacterSet *)invalidCharacterSet;

- (CGFloat) scoreAgainst:(NSString *)anotherString fuzziness:(NSNumber *)fuzziness options:(NSStringScoreOption)options
     invalidCharacterSet:(NSCharacterSet *)invalidCharacterSet decomposedString:(NSString *)string;

The first two can be used to generate the data that is needed for the scoring algorithm. It will speed up the operation if scoreAgainst: is called repeatedly on the same string.

The other changes focus on speeding up the algorithm itself by generating fewer NSString objects.

Author: Nicholas Bruning

Special thanks to Joshaven Potter for providing the basis for this library.

Licensed under the MIT license.