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Re: Re: Death to Dot Star!by Anonymous Monk |
| on Apr 03, 2003 at 12:19 UTC ( #247739=note: print w/ replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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You obviously have not understood the (sometimes catastrophic) performance issues that backtracking can cause. True story. I once saw a person who should have split on the comma instead try to use /(.*),(.*),(.*),(.*),(.*),(.*),(.*),(.*),(.*)/ to pull his data out. Even though this was guaranteed to work on his dataset, he thought that Perl was slow because this performed so pathetically.
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