Re: performance coding project? (was: Re: When to cache)

[Ged Haywood]

Hi all,

Stas has a point.  Perl makes it very easy to do silly things.
This is what I was doing last week:

if( m/\b$Needle\b/ ) {...}
Eight hours. (Silly:)

if( index($Haystack,$Needle) && m/\b$Needle\b/ ) {...}
Twelve minutes.

73,
Ged.