Re: Announcing regex-tre-0.66 and benchmarks

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 11:32 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

So I still don't understand why PCRE should be 40 times faster than PosixRE. Surely this can't be just due to differences in the underlying C library?

Read Ville's papers. Includes comparisons of GNU regex and PCRE. -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net