Comment on Stop avoiding regular expressions damn itparentComments−rcfox13yJust curious: how do the regexes compare when you use "^@(.*)@$" ? Semantically, it's closer to the string version.Realistically, you'd expect them to behave exactly the same, but Go's pretty new, and you never know what is or isn't going to be optimized.−Titanous13y `\A@(.*)@\z` BenchmarkRegexp 500000 5181 ns/op BenchmarkStrings 10000000 171 ns/op
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Just curious: how do the regexes compare when you use "^@(.*)@$" ? Semantically, it's closer to the string version.
Realistically, you'd expect them to behave exactly the same, but Go's pretty new, and you never know what is or isn't going to be optimized.