On 12 October 2013, Linda W <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> From multiple articles the ones with most features and, fastest speed
> have been PCRE engines (perl compatible RegEx... THOUGH the default
> engine built into perl isn't among the fastest).
[...]
For what it's worth, PCRE doesn't have much in common with Perl
aside from the syntax. It was written from scratch by a Cambridge
professor, out of frustration with the GNU regex. It's relatively
recent code compared to Perl, the project was started about (IIRC) 7
years ago, in relation to the Exim MTA.
/lcd
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