Is there any appreciable speed-up to caching RegExp that are that
small? I wasn't able to find any when I looked.

--John



On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Diego Perini <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I did have a quick look through the code and see that most of the
> (small) regular expressions are not cached and referenced but defined
> in-line in the conditionals/replacements.
>
> For example these are repeatedly used in various place:
>
> /\s+/
> /\\/g
> /\?/
>
> I believe there are improvements in both speed and readability of code
> by caching them compiled.
>
> Is there some reason I don't know in not defining some constants like
> TRIM, SQUEEZE, ESCAPE etc... ?
>
>
> Diego
>
> >
>

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