in reply to Re^2: regex to find vowels in anyorder
in thread regex to find vowels in anyorder

Even excluding IO, I cannot discern any appreciable difference either. @words contains 178,000 words:

[0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[(?=.*a)(?=.*e)(?=.*i)(?=.*o)(?=.*u)] and + ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time( +)-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.14288 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[(?=.*a)(?=.*e)(?=.*i)(?=.*o)(?=.*u)] and + ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.12593 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[(?=.*a)(?=.*e)(?=.*i)(?=.*o)(?=.*u)] and + ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.13659 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[(?=.*a)(?=.*e)(?=.*i)(?=.*o)(?=.*u)] and + ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.14437 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[(?=.*a)(?=.*e)(?=.*i)(?=.*o)(?=.*u)] and + ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.13993 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[(?=.*a)(?=.*e)(?=.*i)(?=.*o)(?=.*u)] and + ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.13856 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[^(?=.*a)(?=.*e)(?=.*i)(?=.*o)(?=.*u)] an +d ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.13786 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[^(?=.*a)(?=.*e)(?=.*i)(?=.*o)(?=.*u)] an +d ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.13947 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[^(?=.*a)(?=.*e)(?=.*i)(?=.*o)(?=.*u)] an +d ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.12269 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[^(?=.*a)(?=.*e)(?=.*i)(?=.*o)(?=.*u)] an +d ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.13944 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[(?=^.*a)(?=^.*e)(?=^.*i)(?=^.*o)(?=^.*u) +] and ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.12400 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[(?=^.*a)(?=^.*e)(?=^.*i)(?=^.*o)(?=^.*u) +] and ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.14011 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[(?=^.*a)(?=^.*e)(?=^.*i)(?=^.*o)(?=^.*u) +] and ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.13754 seconds [0] Perl> $c =0; $t = time; m[(?=^.*a)(?=^.*e)(?=^.*i)(?=^.*o)(?=^.*u) +] and ++$c for @words; printf "Found $c matches in %.5f seconds\n", (time()-$t);; Found 1905 matches in 0.13191 seconds

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