On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com> wrote: > Have you tried to profile and see where is the time spent? not real profile, just run with "time" command > You don't have $PREMATCH $`, $MATCH $& or $POSTMATCH $' anywhere in > your code, do you? no, I checked it Pinkhas