Re: Java v Perl dashing golf

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:22:48PM -0500, Chris Dolan wrote:
> Yanick wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:09:18AM +1000, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> /^192\.(?:9|18|29)\./||/\.(gif|jpg|css|GIF|JPG|CSS) HTTP/ or print
> 
> Also, "?:" is not really needed.  We don't care about backreferences.

	Indeed. And by not stocking'em, we are actually gaining a little
bit in speed (at least that's what I see). So:

/^192\.(?:9|18|29)\./||/\.(?:gif|GIF|jpg|JPG|css|CSS) HTTP/ or print

	is still a wee bit faster.

> Shorter than `/'s:
>   -n /^192\.(9|18|29)\.|\.(gif|jpg|css|GIF|JPG|CSS) HTTP/||print

	shorter, but alas nowhere as fast.

	Of course, we will have to send whatever we end up with to
the gentleman who wrote that article. I think our one-liner is
getting close of being 50% faster than the 100 lines java program.
Not to mention 613% funnier to write. 

Joy,
`/anick

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