Perlblog entries for 2010-03-03
Some simple "white-space trim" benchmarks
Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2010, 15:38.
Categories: perl, ironman, benchmarking, trim, regexp, optimization, basic, tutorial.
Laufeyjarson asked on Monday, about stripping whitespace from both ends of a string. The comments contains lots of suggestions, but no hard figures, so I thought I'd reproduce them here along with the code used to generate the benchmarks - it provides a simple example of how to write a quick and reliable benchmark.
