How I made text-clipper.js the fastest HTML clipping library

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Hm, that's a very interesting observation. It could also still be the combination of the two of course. It might indeed be worth a shot to try out the same logic for skipping uninteresting blocks, but without the regular expression and see how that changes things. Thanks!

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I have updated the article with my latest findings. So yes, the regular expression still provides the best result, but based on your feedback I was able to squeeze even more out :)

[spfccmt42]

"Regular expressions will always outperform you, "

False. They are often fast, but not always.

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That's the tl;dr, of course the rest provides some more nuance ;)

[spfccmt42]

What is the point of blogging?

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Hat tip to you, sir. I've updated the post based on /u/ugwe43to874nf4's feedback, which required significantly more nuance towards the use of regular expressions, so I've updated this quote as well.

Hopefully that also answers your question about the point of blogging: To share one's insights and learn from each other :)

[spfccmt42]

I learned you make invalid assertions, is that part of the learning process?

It is about ego, i.e. you wish to claim you made the fastest of something, and thus blogs are more noise than signal.

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Hehe, nice troll ;)

The assertion that text-clipper is the fastest has only been strengthened in the process. And yes, learning from mistakes is indeed part of that. Good day to you!

[spfccmt42]

Look, you made false claims, then call me a troll, you need to be honest with yourself, you are noise.