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Re: Compile regular expression
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Helmut Eller |
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Re: Compile regular expression |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:14:05 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
* Cecil Westerhof [2009-12-21 11:31+0100] writes:
> I am working with CL at the moment. When you compile a regular
> expression in CL, the program is about 4 times as fast. This program is
> a translation of something I first wrote in elisp. So I was wondering if
> I could get the same advantage in my elisp code. But I could find
> nothing to compile a regular expression. Is this true, or am I not
> looking correctly?
Emacs uses a cache for compiled regexps internally but it's not exposed.
Helmut