Java > Scala

[Walter Bright]

On 12/1/2011 1:58 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 21:52:38 Walter Bright wrote:
>> The difference likely has little to do with native vs JVM, but more likely
>> is heavily dependent on how well regex is implemented.
>
> Which begs the question as to how well D would do with the new std.regex.

Sure. Wanna give it a go?

(The older regex is an old-fashioned bytecode engine I wrote the core of 10+ 
years ago in a weekend. It's not a bit surprising that the Java/Perl ones, where 
resources have been poured into them, would run faster.)