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Re: skip-chars-forward v. re-search-forward
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: skip-chars-forward v. re-search-forward |
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Thu, 03 Apr 2003 05:37:57 -0500 |
I've tended to use skip-chars-forward instead of re-search-forward
since it's byte-coded and I assumed it's more efficient. However, I
made a measurement and found that skip-chars-forward was actually
slower than re-search-forward.
That is really surprising. Can you figure out what makes
skip-chars-forward so slow? We ought to be able to make it faster
than re-search-forward without much effort, so we may as well try.