I was curious to see if MacPerl would bomb out with a huge regex made up of 200 or so short ones. It worked like a charm.
Superb. Thank you Bart. - - - On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:53:23 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: [snip] >And in your case: > m/$_/ >is very inefficient code by itself. The regular expression gets compiled >for *every* loop, a slow process indeed. Say you can speed this up by a >factor 10. Then this factor of maximmum 2 looks pretty silly in >comparison, doesn't it? >This: > $" = "|"; > $text =~ /@rgx/i >does the same as your code. Only one (huge) regex to compile.
