V8 has a very fast regexp engine.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Heath Matlock heathmatl...@gmail.comwrote:
In the language shootout, the v8 engine outperforms all other languages:
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/performance.php?test=regexdna
Would someone take a little time
Could be faster ;)
http://coreperf.com/projects/rejit/introduction.html#dna_matching_benchmark
To give a tiny bit more details than Jakob, I guess a first explanation is
that the regexp engine is also a JIT. So v8 generates tailored code to
match each regular expression.
On Wednesday, 26
