29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
3:21 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:35:02PM +0100, Martin Nilsson (�skblod) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
My figures are from the language shootout. One year old though.
This one? http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/bench/regexmatch/
Tests are a bit incorrect - single pattern for very specific data set. For this particular case the results are correct, sure. But in average and for more complex patterns... No way.
Again, PCRE offers far more functionality and matching rules, some of them may not be implemented in Pike's RE but are very useful.
Regards, /Al