[OT] std.regex is slow [was DUB - call to arms]

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On Thursday, 25 April 2019 at 16:49:27 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> P.S. I lack time or energy to improve on regex esp. in std 
> proper. I hope to get back to my experiments on rewind-regex 
> though. JIT compilation is on the list, mostly to avoid 
> reliance on compiler + being more aggressive on low-level 
> tricks.

Hey Dmitry, nice to see you again!

Bastiaan.