I've done a bit of testing myself. The figures one gets depend a lot on the kind of testing, but this is a fairly straightforward case when searching for a submatch that doesn't exist in a large string:
Pike: 0.00017900 s Perl: 0.00074000 s Emacs 20: 0.04566600 s Emacs 21: 0.05563044 s TRE: 0.07000000 s GNU Regex: 0.16000000 s
The shortcoming in Pikes Regexp is the lack of features, not the speed.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS
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2003-09-19 15:30: Subject: Re: Adding PCRE to Pike
where did you see that?
greetings, martin.
/ Brevbäraren