On 23.12.2016 18:46, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2016-12-23 13:06, Sven Barth wrote: >> Regular expressions usually have a higher overhead > > That is not always a given.
You are aware that I wrote "usually" there? > For many other things, plain code could be faster, but often a lot more > effort and time consuming to implement. Where as you could have written > a regex expression in under 10 seconds and accomplish the same task 8 > lines of code or less - very little effort required. But sometimes the effort vs performance trade of is worth it. E.g. opening a log file in 10 seconds vs nearly none make a difference (as I said, I don't remember the exact speed up anymore, but it was significant; but also not the only problematic point as originally the opening of a large enough log file took minutes :P ). Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
