On 25 Oct 2005, at 22:39, Thomas Fischer wrote:
2. I didn't want to sound too harsh, sorry.
And if my reply sounded harsh, sorry too.
3. It seems that regular expressions are to be avoided in time sensitive parts of the script anyway. Playing around a little bit I found that the RegExp solution I suggested took far more time than any other solution (by about a factor of 10 compared with the fastest solution). Probably this should be optimized in an updated version. It seems that regular expressions in Perl are by a factor 6 faster (and again 8 times faster on my PC laptop).
I believe that replaceText received a performance boost in the 2.6.1 version. I don't how much of a difference it makes. But I'm not surprised that Perl handles regular expressions faster. That's what it was built for. (On the other hand, it's not too good at drag and drop. :-) )
On the other hand, this shows that those cumbersome repeat loops are surprisingly fast.
And usually easier to read than regular expressions.
All in all, Bob's idea "to ask questions that make them want to crawl under the table in shame because probably the answer is idiotically simple." turned out to keep people busy and excited for quite a while. Proves again that there are no simple questions...
Absolutely. Regards Dave _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
