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From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: skip-chars-forward v. re-search-forward
Date: 04 Apr 2003 11:48:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rzqof3mfshv.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jehe9gsmrg.fsf@sykes.suse.de

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> But re-search-forward uses a cache for recently used regexps to
> avoid the overhead of compiling it, whereas skip-chars-forward
> always sets up the search map anew.

Yes, but that doesn't address the question.

Anyhow, caching doesn't account for the experimental data, at least
when searching a big buffer for a missing pattern.  re-search-forward
is faster in one-off use.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-04 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-02 17:43 skip-chars-forward v. re-search-forward Dave Love
2003-04-02 19:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-04-03 22:53   ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-04 10:48   ` Dave Love [this message]
2003-04-03 10:37 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-04 10:52   ` Dave Love
2003-04-24  1:41   ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-26  2:33     ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-29 17:20       ` Dave Love
2003-05-01  7:11       ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-02  7:05         ` Richard Stallman

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