[regex-coach] Re: Regex Coach

[Edi Weitz]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:21:33 +0200 (CEST), Maciej Żenczykowski <maze at cela.pl> wrote:

> Pentium III 1 GHz + 512MB ram (Linux - Fedora Core 3)
>
> The Regex:
>
> # some 200 chars of comments
> (?: - (?: 0 | [1-9]\d{0,3} | [12]\d{4} | 3[01]\d{3}
> | 32[0-6]\d\d | 327[0-5]\d | 3276[0-8] )
> | (?:\+|(?<![\d+\-])) (?: 0 | [1-9]\d{0,3} | [12]\d{4} | 3[01]\d{3}
> | 32[0-6]\d\d | 327[0-5]\d | 3276[0-7] ) )(?!\d)
> # should match -32768 to -0, and [+]0 to [+]32767
>
> with 'x' and 'g' options
>
> target string:
>
> 1 2 3 -5 -130 -128 -127 -111 -99 -9 -1 0 +0 -0 +1 123 +99 +130
> 345+34+11 0x10e -32768 -32769 -9 -99 -999 -9999 -99999 -29999 -39999
> -31999 -32999 -32799 -32699 -32769 -32759 -32768 -0 0 +0 99999 39999
> 32999 32799 32769 32768 32767 32759 32699 31999 29999 9999 999 99 9 0
>
> requires roughly 2 seconds for a screen update.

Hmm, screen update on my laptop (Pentium M 2.0 GHz, XP pro) is without
a noticable delay - even if I run the app from within VMWare
(simulating Debian Linux with 512 MB of RAM).  Should it be that my
CPU is so much faster than yours?

Cheers,
Edi.