I didn't check myself, but in the link from the other comment regex is the one thing where python wins! https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarks

I didn't check myself, but in the link from the other comment regex is the one thing where python wins! https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/python.html https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... Of course this is testing two native implementations of regex parsing, not the higher level scripting language handling.