[HTTPS-Everywhere] The standard pattern for 'www.'

[Whizz Mo]

At the risk of bringing up space-time tradeoff, has anyone examined the
engine's regex vs naive pattern matching speed?

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Drake, Brian <brian2 at drakefamily.tk> wrote:

> That sounds good to me. I use far more complex “regexy” patterns than that.
> That’s what regexp is for, isn’t it?
>
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1041 (UTC-8), Osama Khalid <osamak at gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Most rules use "(www\.)?" to match URLs with and without the 'www.'
>> prefix but few (~57 vs. 394) have two different patterns for each
>> case.
>>
>> I suggest changing the few patterns to the regexy way.
>>
>> Should I send a patch?
>>
>> --Osama Khalid[snip]
>>
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