From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:09:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Interpret :/<pattern> as a regular expression
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706140909360.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4670F2BB.5060909@vilain.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Sam Vilain wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > So no, I think pcre is just not worth it.
>
> A strange thing to conclude from your figures, which show pcre as the 
> fastest out of several libraries that you tested.

The best of the worse. Yes. An external (!) program was 4x faster than 
pcre. I don't know how to make it more obvious that pcre sucks.

Hth,
Dscho