Contains vs is in

[Richard Gaskin]

hh wrote:

 > I wasn't aware of that, good to know, "is in"/"contains" is 10%
 > faster than "offset() > 0".

But as with many benchmarks, it's helpful to keep the absolute times in 
mind.

In my quickie test script I had to use 1,000,000 iterations just to get 
any appreciable duration to test.

10% of a fraction is a nanosecond isn't much to lose sleep over. :)

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