From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compile regular expression
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:03:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbrkbhso.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m28wcwshoi.fsf@gmail.com
Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:
>> I am working with CL at the moment. When you compile a regular
>> expression in CL, the program is about 4 times as fast. This program is
>> a translation of something I first wrote in elisp. So I was wondering if
>> I could get the same advantage in my elisp code. But I could find
>> nothing to compile a regular expression. Is this true, or am I not
>> looking correctly?
>
> Emacs uses a cache for compiled regexps internally but it's not exposed.
Okay, then in principle I do not have to worry. But one more question. I
call a function a lot (five million times) with a string containing the
regular expression. Does the cache work in this case also? Because the
string is evaluated in the function and looses focus when returning.
--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-21 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-21 10:31 Compile regular expression Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-21 11:14 ` Helmut Eller
2009-12-21 13:03 ` Cecil Westerhof [this message]
2009-12-21 14:27 ` Helmut Eller
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