> This is probably necessary because Go's RE2 lacks some features No, it's because PCRE is faster than Go's standard library regex engine on this particular be

> This is probably necessary because Go's RE2 lacks some features No, it's because PCRE is faster than Go's standard library regex engine on this particular benchmark. There is another entry for Go (called just `Go` I believe) that uses Go's "regexp" package. The regexredux benchmark itself does not require any "fancy" features. It can be satisfied by pure regular expressions.