Derek Chesterfield pisze: > Hmm. Simplifying my test script further, I am not sure that Regexp is > the problem at all! > With the each_line block, my script take more than TWICE as long in > 1.9 vs. 1.8. > But without the each_line block, but keeping the Regexp, it is 10% > FASTER. > Oops, It seems you're right, just split the original logfile and use each instead of each_line and it gets a whole lot faster (the rb_str_each_line is encoding aware). Anyways, it doesn't change the fact that Oniguruma might be opted here as well. lopex