Regex DNA benchmark

[Don Clugston]

Jascha Wetzel wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>> I think D needs into its std lib a RE engine as flexible and as fast 
>> as Python/Perl/Ruby/etc ones. (They use an "almost" standard syntax, 
>> you can do mostly the same things with them. People use the Perl REs 
>> every day).
>> Then later people can add any kind of faster & more specialized RE 
>> engines (like your one). Don't you agree? :-)
> 
> i don't know what exactly most people need. i'm just pretty sure they 
> need a faster implementation than the current one. std.regexp also lacks 
> a few fundamental features (like non-greedy matching).
Actually std.regexp does support non-greedy matching, it's just undocumented.
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