ok, forget it, if the tag name is at the end of the stirng the hash is still faster. The RegExp is the slowest, with or without /i ... FireFox 3.0.6
Regards On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Andrea Giammarchi < [email protected]> wrote: > If this suggestion is just to know if the nodeName exists, I wonder if > ~"BODY.HEAD.WHATEVER".indexOf(nodeName) could be even faster (core static > string search instead of dynamic hash table) > > Regards > > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Karl Swedberg <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Feb 5, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Már Örlygsson wrote: >> >> >> I thought simple regular expressions were lightning fast in modern >> browsers. >> Bulking up the code with tagName hashes hardly seems worth it. >> >> -- >> Már Örlygsson >> >> >> >> Benchmark tests would certainly answer that question. >> >> George, Do you have tests for the case-insensitive object hash approach? >> Would be great to see the difference between that and regex, so we don't >> have to rely on subjective ideas about what we *think* browsers should do. >> >> --Karl >> ____________ >> Karl Swedberg >> www.englishrules.com >> www.learningjquery.com >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
