From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T09:36:57+09:00
Subject: Re: =~ vs match - Some benchmarks.

On 12/20/05, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
> While profiling some code I noticed =~, String.match and Regexp.match
> turning up in my hotspots. So here is the results of a little
> benchmarking to resolve which is faster to use...
>
Huh. Interesting.  Why is
string=~/frogs/o
faster than:
string=~/frogs/
..when there are no substitutions involved?