Re^2: An optimization of last resort: eliminate capturing from your regexps

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~~Making that a flag on Perl is a horrible idea. Quick, I want to speed up my program, can I use that flag? I dunno, do you want to go through all of the modules you import and didn't write?~~

Make that a flag on the regular expression instead. Then people can turn it on when they find a critical part of their code to optimize. And don't have to worry about looking through modules written by other people.

As tye pointed out, I misread. Sorry.

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Re^3: An optimization of last resort: eliminate capturing from your regexps (//k) by tye (Sage) on Jul 12, 2006 at 02:51 UTC
Am I misunderstanding you or did you just not notice the second paragraph: `$str =~ /Hulk hate (\w+)/k;` [download] Note that demerphq has added /k to his regex. I don't see demerphq proposing any per-script or per-invocation flag that you seem to have imagined. - tye	[reply] [d/l]

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