Re: Bad uses of patterns (was: Re: Feature request: names for constants)
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- Subject: Re: Bad uses of patterns (was: Re: Feature request: names for constants)
- From: Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>
- Date: 2015年9月24日 10:21:09 -0700
> On Sep 24, 2015, at 9:45 AM, Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 24/09/15 12:39 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
>> Consider the following code:
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>> local trim_pattern = "^%s*(.*%S)%s*$"
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> Wouldn't it be faster if you trimmed at start, reversed, then trimmed at start again? (or maybe at start, then at end?)
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It would be faster (by a wide margin) to have a C function do it.
—Tim