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`String#match` vs `String#scan`

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
performance

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Description

Hello.

These methods are pretty similar.

I've done some benchmarks and figured out that match is twice faster than scan.

I can try to make a PR, but not sure do we need for it here.

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