From: Stephen Smith <4fires@...>
Date: 2007-03-31T05:09:52+09:00
Subject: Re: text processing

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Sweet!

Thanks James.

This will probably help quite a bit as our user base (fingers crossed)
grows. :-)

Steve

On 3/30/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>
> On Mar 30, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Stephen Smith wrote:
>
> > But I think that the format Harry and Gary suggested clearly
> > represents the pattern I'm matching.
>
> Just FYI, when speed matters it may be worth using unpack:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
>
> require "benchmark"
>
> TESTS = 100_000
> LINE  = "XYZ" * 100
> Benchmark.bmbm do |results|
>    results.report("regex:") do
>      TESTS.times do
>        /(.{8})(.{6})(.{15})(.{3})(.{30})(.{4})(.{15})(.{1})(.{12})(.
> {9})/.match(LINE).captures.join(",")
>      end
>    end
>    results.report("unpack:") do
>      TESTS.times do
>        LINE.unpack("A8A6A15A3A30A4A15A1A12A9").join(",")
>      end
>    end
> end
> # >> Rehearsal -------------------------------------------
> # >> regex:    2.060000   0.000000   2.060000 (  2.067150)
> # >> unpack:   0.760000   0.000000   0.760000 (  0.762482)
> # >> ---------------------------------- total: 2.820000sec
> # >>
> # >>               user     system      total        real
> # >> regex:    2.040000   0.000000   2.040000 (  2.046938)
> # >> unpack:   0.770000   0.000000   0.770000 (  0.763620)
>
> __END__
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>

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