[erlang-questions] any way to speed up regex.split?

[Steve Vinoski]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:06 PM, akonsu <akonsu@REDACTED> wrote:

> I have two benchmarks that perform a simple text split on a regular
> expression. One is in Ruby and another is in Erlang. The Erlang version is
> 6 times slower on my machine for some reason. I have read all documentation
> I could find on how to use binaries in Erlang, but I cannot make it faster.
> I am looking for help.
>

You can gain a slight speedup by specifying [{return,binary}] as the final
argument to re:split/3, but since you're splitting on whitespace, why not
use binary:split rather than re:split? The former appears to be 10x faster
than the latter for this case.

--steve
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