Re: [PATCH] Interpret :/<pattern> as a regular expression

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Sam Vilain wrote:

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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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