Bad performance of simple regular expression - why??

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:35:06 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:

> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:47:53 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> Regardless, perl was basically created as a convenient way to use
>>> regular expressions, so it's implementation could very likely be more
>>> efficient than D's.
>> 
>> I stumbled across this link last night. It says something slightly
>> different...
> 
> I'm all ears...

Oups.. Here you go:

http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html