Sent from my LG phone Jim Gibson <jimsgib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On May 26, 2012, at 5:51 AM, pa...@fsmail.net wrote: > >> split is slower than the correct regex matching. >> > >Did you know that split uses a regular expression to find the separators on >which to split the string? So your claim is unlikely to be true. In any case, >the difference between using split and a single regular expression is likely >to be insignificant. You shouldn't worry about such trivial differences. Chris >just wants to extract some data from a file, and it won't matter to him if it >takes a few extra nanoseconds. > >The best advice when worrying about efficiency is this: first get the program >working correctly. Then, if it is too slow, find out where the bottlenecks are >and try to optimize those. Usually, the most gains can be achieved by changing >the algorithm, not the implementation. >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org >For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org >http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
