Shoutbox

Not that it matters, or has much effect on performance, but you don't need use [] brackets for a single character in regexp:

code:

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/([\\]*)!(\w+|#)/g

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is identical to:

code:

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/(\\*)!(\w+|#)/g

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I did a little benchmark, and in 1 sec first regexp was executed 180499 times, and second 185191 times (2.6% increase). Not much, but why not?

or

code:

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/[\\]+/g

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vs

code:

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/\\+/g

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Benchmark: 316126 vs 326921 (3.4% increase)