This is now a classic reading: (tldr: it is faster to call PHP process from C++ code and do regex in PHP than to use std::regex, and slow std::regex will never

This is now a classic reading: (tldr: it is faster to call PHP process from C++ code and do regex in PHP than to use std::regex, and slow std::regex will never change because the Comittee doesn’t want to break ABI in favor of speed): https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/abi/ https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/abi/