[Newbies] Efficient date parsing

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "stan" == stan shepherd <squeak414 at free.fr> writes:

stan> Is there a more efficient way? Is there a standard method I've missed?

One thing you should ensure is that you're not converting the same date twice.
Typical logs have thousands of entries all with the same date, and I've seen
far too many naive solutions that keep converting, over and over again,
'2008-02-15' into Feb 15 2008.  Really no point.

Implement a simple cache:

   ^dateCache at: dateString ifAbsent:
      [dateCache at: dateString put: (Date from: dateString)].

something like that.

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