Hello
The reaseon why PCRE is faster is because the POSIX standard demands to
return the longest matching string which means POSIX checks all possible
matches while PCRE simply returns the first valid match. In cases where
there is no match both have to check all matches.
The other thing is,
Pablo Gosse wrote:
Hi all. Quick quesiton about PCRE vs. POSIX-extended regular
expressions.
How much of a difference is there between these two types of regular
expressions. I know I've read that PCRE is faster, but is it that much
of a difference?
PCRE are _way_ more advanced,
Hi all. Quick quesiton about PCRE vs. POSIX-extended regular
expressions.
How much of a difference is there between these two types of regular
expressions. I know I've read that PCRE is faster, but is it that much
of a difference?
A while ago I had to write a bunch of regular expression
Rasmus Lerdorf (inventor of PHP) has said that PCRE is generally faster, but
i haven't benchmarked myself. Of course strpos( ) is the fastest.
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hi everyone,
i have been using perl for quite some time, but
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 07:16:06PM +0800, John Lim wrote:
Rasmus Lerdorf (inventor of PHP) has said that PCRE is generally faster, but
i haven't benchmarked myself. Of course strpos( ) is the fastest.
Joerg Krause has posted an URL for a webpage for benchmarking reg-expressions.
Sorry, I
hi everyone,
i have been using perl for quite some time, but after getting used to
php4, i think it rocks.
i am wondering which is better, performance-wise, when trying to match the
same text: PCRE or POSIX extended in php4?
cheers,
Bill
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i have been using perl for quite some time, but after getting used to
php4, i think it rocks.
i am wondering which is better, performance-wise, when trying to match the
same text: PCRE or POSIX extended in php4?
PCRE.
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