Dont mean to hijack this thread or anything, but as someone who has spent many years researching pattern matching, I was intrigued by this posting and comment.

Dont mean to hijack this thread or anything, but as someone who has spent many years researching pattern matching, I was intrigued by this posting and comment. I decided to put my own library (dClass) to the end-to-end performance comparison: https://github.com/TheWeatherChannel/dClass/wiki/dClass-vs-grep https://github.com/TheWeatherChannel/dClass/wiki/dClass-vs-g...