From: Daniel Martin <martin@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T05:50:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Slow regular expressions :(

Roman Hausner <roman.hausner@gmail.com> writes:

> I am disappointed to learn that Ruby obviously implements yet another 
> regular expression library that does not avoid very slow matching 
> failures.

Just a note that there are some patterns where I found (in my tests,
on a cygwin environment I can't recreate anymore) that ruby beat perl.

http://snowplow.org/martin/rebench/

I should note that the people at perlmonks.org disbelieve my results,
or rather, believe that my results are being skewed by some strange
cygwin issue.  I haven't gotten off my butt and redone the same tests
on linux.