Re: efficiency question on text manipulation using string vs buffer

[Xah Lee]

On Mar 24, 1:19 pm, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote:
> XahLee<xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It appears to me, testing these commands on a text selection with
> > about 122k chars that needs to be replaced, the second version is only
> > 1 second slower? (both finishes within 2 or 3 seconds, on a 2007
> > midrange PC)
>
> You should note that the replace-string function is pretty smart.
> It only does one big concat, so not that much string manipulation actually
> happens in this case.  The majority of time is probably spent on the
> regexp search anyway, making direct comparison moot.

Thanks.

  Xah
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