Benchmarking is fun. However you should consider your results a little more carefully before making recomendation on them. This would definitly count as a minor optimization at best since we are talking about 32k instead of 40k per second. Which means unless you are are doing 100k's of these compares you are never going to notice the difference. Also interesting is the result of that benchmark on my machine:

1..2
          Rate  plain sticky
plain  23682/s     --    -1%
sticky 23904/s     1%     --
ok 1
ok 2

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Oddly the difference dropped to mere 100s per second.


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Eric Hodges

In reply to Re^3: Simple regular expression problem by eric256
in thread Simple regular expression problem by jeanluca

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