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Re:Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% o... by bartl on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @02:26PM (#4318881)
A perl regular expression will test for a match in less than a microsecond. Other scripting languages have a similar speed.

There's no need to program like it's 1985 any more.

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Re:Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% o... by qntm on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @06:50PM (#4320057)
Hey, you show me a performance problem, I show you a solution. Preferably one involving finite state machines.
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