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Using the benchmark game to judge the performance of regex engines for a specific task for anything other than what the benchmark game is doing is a serious mis
by burntsushi 6y ago
Using the benchmark game to judge the performance of regex engines for a specific task for anything other than what the benchmark game is doing is a serious mistake.
And I say this as the person who wrote the only non-PCRE regex engine that appears in the top 20 entries of the regex-redux benchmark.
Besides, if people want to use PCRE2 from Rust, then it's as simple as using a crate (which I also wrote): https://docs.rs/pcre2 https://docs.rs/pcre2
- sk2020 6y agoThis is the brigading I'm talking about. Every thread anywhere on HN or lobsters where anyone gives Rust anything but blind praise, you , Klabnik, Skade, Matklad or one of the entourage write walls of text like lunatics. Let it go. Even by your own reasoning, reading anything into the Cloudfront article would be a mistake, right? Yet, here it is on the front page. Dutifully upvoted.
- dang 6y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here. No more of this, please, and please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601088 also.