I just did a followup test to see just how the re:replace function did with converting a 16kb text string with a BBCode parser I've written in Erlang, and on my

I just did a followup test to see just how the re:replace function did with converting a 16kb text string with a BBCode parser I've written in Erlang, and on my crappy laptop it did 1000 conversions in 12 seconds. Further, I'm not running the high-performance version of Erlang, nor did I do any attempts at parallelization optimization. Surprising to me was that the performance difference between binaries and strings wasn't too much different. Module: https://github.com/choptastic/Yabbie/blob/linux/site/src/lib/bbcode.erl https://github.com/choptastic/Yabbie/blob/linux/site/src/lib... (keep in mind, this is built with the Nitrogen Web Framework in mind, so if you want to run it stand-alone, you can comment out the include lines and it should work just fine). (nitrogen@127.0.0.1)9> bbcode:benchmark("l4d.txt",1000). [{binary_time,12841.423},{string_time,12888.905}] So 12000 milliseconds for 1000 iterations each. A few millisecond difference (46 millisecond difference) isn't much of a difference.