[Mpls-pm] Interesting RegEx Problem

[Ian Malpass]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Nathan Graham wrote:

> If you have lots of patterns and only a few strings, then using the
> study() function might speed things up.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about study(). Note that the documentaton is 
equivocal about the performance benefits of study()[0], since there is 
overhead in studying a string, and no guarantee of it giving you anything 
in return.

Anyone want to do a lightning talk on profiling and benchmarking in perl?

Ian

[0] "...you probably want to compare run times with and without it to see 
which runs faster" - perldoc -f study

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