Comment Comment by sergiotapia Ruby 2.4 adds a new #match? method for regular expressions which is three times faster than any Regexp method in Ruby 2.3:Why does Ruby have 4 different regexp match functions?Regexp#match?: 2630002.5 i/s Regexp#===: 872217.5 i/s - 3.02x slower Regexp#=~: 859713.0 i/s - 3.06x slower Regexp#match: 539361.3 i/s - 4.88x slower parent sergiotapia 10 years ago
Why does Ruby have 4 different regexp match functions?
Regexp#match?: 2630002.5 i/s Regexp#===: 872217.5 i/s - 3.02x slower Regexp#=~: 859713.0 i/s - 3.06x slower Regexp#match: 539361.3 i/s - 4.88x slower