Regex (MatchText) speed

[Mark Brownell]

On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 11:58  PM, Brian Yennie wrote:

> 2) Determine if you need case-sensitivity. Setting the caseSensitive 
> to TRUE (it's FALSE by default) provides around a 50% speedup by 
> itself. Of course you can only use it if you actually are doing case 
> sensitive work, OR you are able to convert things with upper() or 
> lower() first and then restore them later in a clever fashion.

You learn something new everyday around here. I didn't know that 
offset() worked faster in "caseSensitive to TRUE" mode.

I have an XML based data structure that works like a database that 
would be perfect to test this on. Imagine that, a 50% increase in speed 
for one line of code.

Thanks,

Mark