SC, Rev,and RB speed test

[Dar Scott]

On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 02:25 AM, Brian Yennie wrote:

> Ah hah! Try these two scripts. The timed portion of the first 
> SHOULDN'T run any faster than the second, but it does. The "contains" 
> operator should be bailing as soon as it matches "zoom" in the first 4 
> characters, but it's clearly scanning the entire text. Tsk tsk...

I get 0 and 676.

This is the 2.5 meg string.  I changed my tests to look for the first 
four chars in a 2.5 meg string and it took 4553 microseconds.

OK, so even my tests see it with a very long string.  I wonder if this 
even gets the right answer.

Dar Scott