> Were you not precompiling your regex's in the older code? That would be a bug. I never heard of this before. Perl has legendary fast regexen and I never hea

> Were you not precompiling your regex's in the older code? That would be a bug. I never heard of this before. Perl has legendary fast regexen and I never heard of this feature. Does Java do it? I don't think so, and the regexes are fast enough in my experience. Can you name a language when regexen are precompiled?