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in reply to Re^3: In search of an efficient query abstractor
in thread In search of an efficient query abstractor

$query =~ tr[ \n\t\r\f][ ]s; turns out to be a lot faster than any s/// variant. That change moves this line from #4 badness to #28 badness. Still having trouble with the floats, though.