On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:23 , James French wrote:

> Can anyone suggest a faster alternative to String.split()? I need to  
> call it very intensively and its quite a hotspot. I'm using ruby  
> 1.8.7.

I can suggest you not thread hijack anymore. It is rude and messes up  
people who use real mail clients. Start a new mail.