Optimizing std.regex

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Dmitry mentioned here in the forums not long ago that he had 
squeezed some big performance improvements out of std.regex. His 
post on the D Blog describes how he managed to do it through an 
algorithmic optimization.

The post:
https://dlang.org/blog/2016/11/07/big-performance-improvement-for-std-regex/
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5bm1bc/from_the_d_blog_optimizing_stdregex/