Regex benchmarks in Rust, Scala, D and F#

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 17:52:39 UTC, Karthikeyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Came across this post in rust-lang subreddit about the regex 
> benchamrks. Scala surprisingly outperforms D. LDC also gives a 
> good advantage for efficiency of D.
>
> http://vaskir.blogspot.ru/2015/09/regular-expressions-rust-vs-f.html

I'm willing to bet the bad result D has come from the use of DMD.

Honestly, pushing DMD as the reference implementation cost us 
quite a lot on the PR side of things. D appears to be slower that 
it really is.