If that was the case in "i had a script that was at least 100% slower if i used regexps compared to other methods in pike.", then you might have left out some relevant details here. :-)
/ Johan Sundström, Lysator
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2003-09-19 16:57: Subject: Re: Adding PCRE to Pike
that should not matter if different regexp implementations are compared against each other.
greetings, martin.
/ Brevbäraren