From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-05-20T04:21:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9 compatibility and performance


On May 19, 2008, at 05:02 , James Gray wrote:

> Interesting.  Can you talk a little about why you prefer using  
> regexen to a parser in this instance?
>
> I'm not trying to question your decision.  I'm just curious about  
> your reasoning here.

1) damn fast.
2) the xml from apple's plist format is so regular that a generic xml  
parser is way overkill.
3) more readable
4) damn fast.