From: martin@... (Martin v. Loewis)
Date: 2001-11-22T08:54:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26094] Re: ANN: regex engine development (was: Re: Why not xmlparser?)

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> It doesn't support Japanese encodings, and is too complex to hack.
> I've heard it was slow, but I haven't confirmed it yet.

PCRE was using in Python 1.5, and replaced by an engine that supports
wide strings in Python 2.0. The 2.0 engine is significantler faster,
so I would agree that PCRE is slow.

Regards,
Martin