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stefs on Jan 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How quickly can you remove spaces from a string?

i'm sure using a fully featured regular expression engine would be several magnitudes slower than a handcrafted 128bit routine.

those engines too trade power for speed.

burntsushi on Jan 21, 2017 [–]

That's not at all true. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13448318

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