On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:14:33AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > En op 18 september 2002 sprak `/anick: > > /^192\.(?:9|18|29)\./||/\.(?:gif|GIF|jpg|JPG|css|CSS) HTTP/ or print > > > > is still a wee bit faster. > > BTW, on my (perhaps unrepresentative) 17 MB test file on Windows, > `/anick's program took 4.75 secs versus 140 seconds for the > original 15-line Perl program.
On my (likely to be as unrepresentative) 100 MB test file on Linux, I get 5 secs versus 75 secs, still a non-negligible speedup. The article was saying Perl was twice as slow? Seems it's 7.5 times as fast while needing a hundreth of the lines of code. Hmm... Make me want to rush back at my Java books, this sure doesn't... Joy, `/anick -- "look me in the eye and if you see familiarity then celebrate the contradiction help me when I fall to walk unafraid" -Walk Unafraid, R.E.M.