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.
next prev 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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