http://blog.soulgook.com/2007/03/24/read-only-if-you-know-javascript/ Not what yo' mama said. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:46:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 http://blog.soulgook.com/2007/03/24/read-only-if-you-know-javascript/#comment-49 Michael Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:21:17 +0000 http://blog.soulgook.com/2007/03/24/read-only-if-you-know-javascript/#comment-49 <p>Cool. Perl also does closures; they act about the same. My favorite use for closures in perl was for pre-compiling complex regexes. If you have a really big regex (like several hundred patterns OR'ed together), then creating a function in a closure with that regex comparison can make the comparison run several hundred times faster.</p> Cool. Perl also does closures; they act about the same. My favorite use for closures in perl was for pre-compiling complex regexes. If you have a really big regex (like several hundred patterns OR’ed together), then creating a function in a closure with that regex comparison can make the comparison run several hundred times faster.

]]> http://blog.soulgook.com/2007/03/24/read-only-if-you-know-javascript/#comment-50 SoulGook Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:47:38 +0000 http://blog.soulgook.com/2007/03/24/read-only-if-you-know-javascript/#comment-50 <p>When I was screwing around with interpreting wiki syntax in Javascript a few months ago, I was trying to figure out a way to get some of the more intense regexes to go faster...I wonder if this would have helped (it didn't REALLY matter, as I was already in the 100ms range, but you know...ego and all.)</p> When I was screwing around with interpreting wiki syntax in Javascript a few months ago, I was trying to figure out a way to get some of the more intense regexes to go faster…I wonder if this would have helped (it didn’t REALLY matter, as I was already in the 100ms range, but you know…ego and all.)

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