Two benchmarks of different verions of ML-Ask. Each benchmark performed on a test set containing 42 emotive sentences and 43 non-emotive sentences. Each benchmark represents average results for 20 iterations. Summary: ML-Ask-4.3-noregex is about 12 times faster than ML-Ask-4.0. ML-Ask-simple (all versions) is slower than ML-Ask (all versions) because -simple processes all sen- tences without exception, while ML-Ask first performs pre-selection of sentences for further processing. ========================================================================================= s/iter mlask-4.0 mlask-4.2 mlask-4.2 mlask-4.3-simple mlask-4.3 -simple -regex -noregex -noregex mlask-4.0 7.18 -- -49% -57% -89% -92% mlask-4.2-simple 3.65 97% -- -15% -79% -84% mlask-4.2-regex 3.09 132% 18% -- -75% -81% mlask-4.3-simple-noregex 0.772 830% 373% 301% -- -23% mlask-4.3-noregex 0.591 1115% 517% 423% 31% -- ========================================================================================= s/iter mlask-4.0 mlask-4.2 mlask-4.2 mlask-4.3-simple mlask-4.3 -simple -regex -noregex -noregex mlask-4.0 6.59 -- -45% -48% -89% -91% mlask-4.2-simple 3.62 82% -- -4% -79% -84% mlask-4.2-regex 3.46 91% 5% -- -78% -83% mlask-4.3-simple-noregex 0.753 776% 381% 359% -- -21% mlask-4.3-noregex 0.593 1012% 510% 483% 27% -- =========================================================================================