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

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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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.
  

Oh, your position is obvious enough, but it is correct and supportable
by the available evidence? Why not read past the first paragraph of my
post and reply to that.

Sam.