On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:15:20PM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: > I noticed a slight glitch with the regex-dna benchmark. The benchmark > spec says to account for case insensitivity. So I added the :i > modifier to the patterns and just stuck to the p6 rules. But using the > :i modifier makes it take over three times as long.
I'm not too surprised that :i slows things down -- afaik Parrot doesn't have a case-insensitive string compare, so PGE downcases the strings for comparison. It's currently doing this at each comparison; it would probably be quicker to just make a copy of the downcased string and use that for comparison. Pm
