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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.