From: nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T10:58:13+09:00
Subject: Re: =~ vs match - Some benchmarks.

Hi,

At Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:42:06 +0900,
Bill Guindon wrote in [ruby-talk:171822]:
> > Huh. Interesting.  Why is
> > string=~/frogs/o
> > faster than:
> > string=~/frogs/
> > ..when there are no substitutions involved?
> >
> 
> Purely a guess... it's not checking to see if any substitution is
> needed on further runs, where by default, it checks every time.

No, the check is done at the compilation phase, so Resulted
ASTs should be equivalent.  I guess it's just an error.

-- 
Nobu Nakada