Bad performance of simple regular expression - why??

[Bill Baxter]

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...