Issue #17030 has been updated by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune).


nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote in #note-4:
> Even without a block, `grep` sets `$~` to the last match result.

I agree with @eregon, doesn't seem like it makes much sense to use that.

There's also no valid reason it should set `$~` for all the matches tested before the last one.

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Bug #17030: Enumerable#grep{_v} should be optimized for Regexp
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17030#change-86544

* Author: marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN
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Currently:

```ruby
array.select { |e| e.match?(REGEXP) }

# about 3x faster and 6x more memory efficient than
array.grep(REGEXP)
```

This is because `grep` calls `Regexp#===` which creates useless `MatchData`



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