Regex performance

[James Blewitt]

Hello everyone,

I'm the author of the blog post.

First of all, thanks so much for the interest in my problem.  I 
had no idea that the D community was so active (a fact that 
pleases me greatly).

A quick update.  I've written a small benchmark based on my real 
code and I'm now getting *significantly* better performance from 
my D code.

I'm currently trying to figure out what I'm doing differently in 
my original program.  At this point I am assuming that I have an 
error in my code which causes the D program to do much more work 
that its Ruby counterpart (although I am currently unable to find 
it).

When I know more I will let you know.

James Blewitt