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The fastest way to detect a vowel in a string
Diving into CPython, bytecode, regex, and algorithmic analysis to find the fastest method.
This post involves 11 different methods of detecting a vowel, algorithmic analysis, dissembling Python bytecode, inspecting the CPython implementation, and even looking at compiled regex opcodes. The book Effective Python says,"list comprehensions are clearer than the map and filter built-in functions because they don't require lambda expressions". My beloved set intersection is plenty fast for real world use but doesn't look great in the ranking.
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