On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 10:27:54 AM UTC-4, Venkat Ramakrishnan wrote: > > My use case has all of the text functions that you mentioned, so, thanks > for the info. It looks like the nearest competitor is Python, and Julia's > performance is see-sawing compared to Python in the regexp area... >
Note that regexps in Julia are implemented with the PCRE library. If you google "PCRE vs Python" you'll find several comparisons. The upshot seems to be that PCRE is about 2x slower than Python's regex implementation (which is also written in C, of course) for many common tasks, but PCRE is more full-featured (as long as you are willing to restrict yourself to the UTF-8 encoding, which is the default in Julia).
