Re: [pcre-dev] Ungreedy quantification in atomic groups

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Sheri wrote:

> So far testing with pcretest, it seems to take a little less time to
> compile as atomic group but a little more time to execute (at least
> according to the timings returned -- I don't know why but running
> pcretest with -t is making it take a very long time to get results (not
> reflected in the measured times which are being stated in fractional
> milliseconds). Hopefully not indicative of another problem.

pcretest does it a zillion times and then divides the time. You can
change what a zillion actually is (see the doc for the -t option).

Philip

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Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.