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> That's not an objective comparison, since Javascript has been optimized to deal with arrays and numbers What were your thoughts on the regex-dna benchmark?
by ChrisAntaki 12y ago
> That's not an objective comparison, since Javascript has been optimized to deal with arrays and numbers
What were your thoughts on the regex-dna benchmark?
- meowface 12y agoV8 is able to compile PCREs directly into efficient machine code (in some cases at least), CPython is not. See: http://blog.chromium.org/2009/02/irregexp-google-chromes-new-regexp.html http://blog.chromium.org/2009/02/irregexp-google-chromes-new...
- ChrisAntaki 12y agoThanks for the insight!
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