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i'm sure using a fully featured regular expression engine would be several magnitudes slower than a handcrafted 128bit routine. those engines too trade power f

by stefs 10y ago

i'm sure using a fully featured regular expression engine would be several magnitudes slower than a handcrafted 128bit routine. those engines too trade power for speed.

burntsushi 10y ago
That's not at all true. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13448318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13448318