Posted by Rik on 05/19/06 22:30

zorro wrote:
> and does testing merely mean running it 100 000 times and clocking it?

You could, it would give you some valuable information. 100 000 is a bit
much though.

Rule of thumb: regexes are slow, don't use them if other simple code can do
the job as easily and dynamically.

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus

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