On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:11:26 +0100, "Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Perl builtins and especialy the regular expression engine is > heavily optimized. So it might very well be quicker to use a regexp > from Perl than to implement the same stuff in C. Unless you spend a > lot of time tweaking the code. > > 2. One regexp (assuming its created well) will almost always be > quicker than several loops and ifs in Perl. > > While you should not use a regexp where the "normal" functions > suffice, you should not go into great lengths implementing something > that would be simple as a regexp. It'll be harder to maintain and > most probably slower. > > 3. If you really need to know which solution is quicker > use Benchmark; > > > Jenda
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