[erlang-questions] Performance question

[Stu Bailey]

I found

binary:replace(BinChunk,<<"\n">>,<<>>,[global]).

*significantly *slower than

remove_pattern(BinChunk,<<>>,<<"\n">>).

with

remove_pattern(<<>>,Acc,_BinPat) ->
    Acc;
remove_pattern(Bin,Acc,BinPat)->
    <<Byte:1/binary,Rest/binary>> = Bin,
    case Byte == BinPat of
true -> remove_pattern(Rest,Acc,BinPat);
false -> remove_pattern(Rest,<<Acc/binary,Byte/binary>>,BinPat)
    end.

That was surprising to me.  The built-in binary:replace() was much much
slower for larger BinChunk  with lots of <<"\n">> sprinkled through.

Thoughts?
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