pike regexps are already really slow, i am sure this conversion won't result in pcre being slower than current regexps.
Unless you have data to back that up, could you please stop the FUD. I have seen two regexp benchmarks comparing languages, and Pike performs favorably in both (10% slower than perl, 30% faster than python).
/ Martin Nilsson (saturator)
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2003-09-19 04:27: Subject: Re: Adding PCRE to Pike
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:18:32AM +0200, Alexander Demenshin wrote:
From: "Per Hedbor () @ Pike (-) developers forum" 10353@lyskom.lysator.liu.se Converting to and from UTF-8 is anything but light-weight, also, accessing and matching in UTF-8 strings is not O(1). ---snip--- No offense... :) But that was one (may be last) objection against :)
that is not an objection, just a note.
pike regexps are already really slow, i am sure this conversion won't result in pcre being slower than current regexps.
please alexander, stop taking every critical response as a rejection.
greetings, martin.
/ Brevbäraren