Re^2: Improve processing time for string substitutions

It's unescaped HTML entities:

I want to convert the entities like &ge, &le, into hexa values &#x2265, &#x2264.

But, I'll also point out that the actual entity should end in a semicolon. (which prevents issues such as '&or;' matching 'ª')

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Re^3: Improve processing time for string substitutions by Krambambuli (Curate) on Apr 16, 2007 at 21:16 UTC
Well then, it's something like below that might fit. Read more... (2 kB) The results are interesting: `Benchmark: timing 1000 iterations of regexish, with_splitting... regexish: 59 wallclock secs (58.16 usr + 0.02 sys = 58.18 CPU) @ 17 +.19/s (n=1000) with_splitting: 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.02 CPU) +@ 50000.00/s (n=1000) (warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Improve processing time for string substitutions
by Krambambuli (Curate) on Apr 16, 2007 at 21:16 UTC

Read more... (2 kB)

Benchmark: timing 1000 iterations of regexish, with_splitting...
  regexish: 59 wallclock secs (58.16 usr +  0.02 sys = 58.18 CPU) @ 17
+.19/s (n=1000)
with_splitting:  0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.02 CPU) 
+@ 50000.00/s (n=1000)
            (warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
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