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Go seems to perform really poorly in the regex-redux. Against both Node and Python Go is way faster (as one would expect) apart from with the regex-redux.. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... Does Go just suck with it's regex performance? Would this be easy to fix by just pulling in a C regex library?
I disagree with the people saying the benchmarks game is useless. It mostly seems to conform to my own experiences with the various languages involved. The exception is the regex benchmark, which has little to do with the languages and everything to do with the regex library used by the language. If the dynamic scripting languages were required to use regex engines implemented in pure Python/Perl/PHP/JS, their perfor…
Perhaps that's "a truth" about regex :-)
>> If the dynamic scripting languages were required to…
Then we wouldn't be using them as scripting languages!