[Bioperl-l] Re: issues with _rearrange

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 09:39 AM, Ewan Birney wrote:

>
> Tim - you are a legend.
>
>
> guys - I am planning to apply Tim's new _rearrange now at least 
> which is a
> definite win for most other routes right? Any objections?
>
>

If you don't do it, I'll do. ;-)

Tim, two questions: the conclusion is that s// is slower (~2x) than 
tr//? Would substr($_,0,1,"") (for removing the initial hyphen) give 
away the speedup, two?

	-hilmar
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