marc perkel marcperkelcom thanks dan changes clever rule changes actually make thing readable highly skilled regular expressions found readability understandability important maintaining code think group project important daniel quinlan wrote big deal think marc good point performance difference probably insignificant hand continually errors regular expressions often excessive cleverness applied seems like pretty good example prematureexcessive optimization data showing relevant code run significant period time changes produce measurable improvement performance maybe would nice know complicate every regular expression contrast changes eval loops permsgstatuspm great code responsible lot execution time huge speed improvement even better code easy understand original dan sfnet email sponsored bythinkgeek welcome geek heaven httpthinkgeekcomsf _______________________________________________ spamassassindevel mailing list spamassassindevellistssourceforgenet httpslistssourceforgenetlistslistinfospamassassindevel sun 21 jul 2002 072830 0700 sadev bug 584 new general rule cleanup