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• Eh? (Score:2)

  by djberg96 (2603)

  I have no idea what you've been smoking, because there's no way you should be getting that kind of discrepency. Either you're using a very old version of ruby, your interpreter is broken, or you've been sniffing glue again.

  For my results, I used ruby 1.6.7 and perl 5.8.0 on Mandrake 9. I took the sample text you gave in your journal entry and copied it over and over until I ended up with a 2.4 MB file. I used "bzip-0.21" as the target. Hopefully, I didn't screw up the logic.

  I've provided the exact b
  • Re:Eh? (Score:1)

    by dreadpiratepeter (2770)

    My reply is actually to the original post, not the first reply, but I couldn't find a link to comment on that.
    
    Anyway, I actually was able to get the benchmark on the Perl test significantly lower by doing 2 things:
       I precompiled the regexp
       I joined the relevant search fields using an (assumedly) unused char (^A) and searched on that.
    
    On my box that put the average from around 37 secs. to around 26 secs. (Using djberg96's benchmark version of the script).
    
    use Benchmark;
    use strict;
    my
    • Re:Eh? (Score:1)

      by Buck (2837) <buck@buckpyland.com> on 2003.01.15 21:25 (#16060) Homepage Journal

      Yep. Precompiling the regex and joining the fields to be searched shaved a couple of seconds off the Perl script.
      
      Thanks.

      --
      Buck

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