In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > As a first step towards classifying the solutions, I have timed > them, just as I did for Rick's Troppo Sort game. > > The winner of this month's Tortoise-crawlin' Hall of Shame > award is Amir Karger. It seems that Perl's Recursive Regex > is rather slow. > Mm, but you only look at peoples best solution it seems. The real crawlers are often somewhere else. E.g. my 107 overload is very slow. The eugene-1, replacing \( by ., is even worse.
Ps: also say how fast your processor is to give a scale.