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Re:Stop avoiding regular expressions damn it by rcfox on Sunday May 12, 2013 @10:12AM (#5694284)
Just curious: how do the regexes compare when you use "^@(.*)@$" ? Semantically, it's closer to the string version.

Realistically, you'd expect them to behave exactly the same, but Go's pretty new, and you never know what is or isn't going to be optimized.

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Re:Stop avoiding regular expressions damn it by Titanous on Sunday May 12, 2013 @10:14AM (#5694295) 

    `\A@(.*)@\z`

    BenchmarkRegexp	  500000	      5181 ns/op
    BenchmarkStrings	10000000	       171 ns/op
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