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No this is not V8 performance beating C. This is V8 calling a regexp library written in C++. C just happens to be using a different library that is slower.

• pmelendez 13y ago
  >"This is V8 calling a regexp library written in C++" But it also beat the C++ implementation though.
  • detrino 13y ago
    I guess that re2 (the library that this C++ code is using) is slower than irregexp (the library that V8 is uses) on this benchmark.