On Feb 1, 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... ?
I thought most of the browsers cache some kind of lower level compiled variants of regexps internally. It would be nice to see the actual tests, of course. -- kangax --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
