From: Dmitry Nikiforov <dniq@...>
Date: 2012-02-03T11:21:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Basic Ruby performance

Ryan Davis wrote in post #1043813:

> IMHO re.match is just as useless as Regexp.new, Array.new, and Hash.new
> (assuming no args/blocks passed). They're throwbacks to java devs and
> serve no purpose but to make things more verbose. In this specific case,
> there are tangible reasons to use =~ over #match.

The reason I tried to use Regexp.new is because I figured it would 
pre-compile the regexp - the way "qr/ test /" in Perl would do, so that 
it doesn't have to re-compile it on every iteration.

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