What is the difference between '<word|word>' and '<word;word>'?

[Ralf_Reddings]

I am tripping with some of the search syntaxes and I am not sure what it is down. I dont have a particular scenario in mind. But I would like ask to about this.

What is the difference between the following two searches:

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ext:<url;html>  url:<bbc;thetimes>

and:

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ext:<url|html>  url:<bbc|thetimes>

Are they the same? Which is bound to be faster? This would be usefull in case when I am using them a lot manually, or building convoluted bookmarks, where performance matters.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[void]

ext: is an anomaly.
ext: has its own syntax.

Please only use ; with ext:

for example:

ext:url;html



url:<bbc;thetimes> and url:<bbc|thetimes> compile into the same search op codes.
So there's no performance difference here.

url:<bbc|thetimes>
is faster than:
url:bbc | url:thetimes



ext:url;html and ext:<url;html> is faster than ext:<url|html>
I'll look into making ext:<url|html> have the same performance as ext:url;html

[Ralf_Reddings]

Now I understand much better, thank for this.