From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T10:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ordered contrast for String or Array

On 9/4/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/4/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It looks like unpack is a clear winner:
>
> Then on second thought, it looks like the problem with scan was the
> construction of the regex, although using scan without pre-compiling
> the regex is about twice as slow as unpack, using scan with a
> pre-compiled regexp looks like it's about 100 times faster!

Disregard that last test.  It's been pointed out to me that my code
using the pre-compiled regex was flawed, I used Regexp.new('/./') when
it should have been either Regexp.new('.') or Regexp.new(/./).

Normally I test before posting, but I got a little carried away this time.
-- 
Rick DeNatale

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