Re: pcre vs perl regex engine

I'd like to see some numbers on that and on the POSIX regex engine. But any benchmarks would need a huge variety of patterns as, no doubt, some of the engines are designed with different purposes in mind than others.

-Paul

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Re^2: pcre vs perl regex engine by jeteve (Pilgrim) on Jan 16, 2009 at 19:23 UTC
Yep, My purpose here is to keep things simple. No conditions, backtracking etc.. J. -- Jerome Eteve	[reply]
Re^3: pcre vs perl regex engine by jettero (Monsignor) on Jan 16, 2009 at 19:28 UTC
Then it's not much of a test. How a RE engine handles backtracking should at the very least be relevant. -Paul	[reply]