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Post by smitherfield » Mon, Jan 02, 2017, 7:33 AM UTC

ralfd wrote: post #90

eptcyka wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not necessarily true https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?la... http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

Interesting. Swift runs circles around Python, except Regex-DNA. Problems with string manipulations?

Python and the other scripting languages' regex engine is PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions, a very mature and highly-optimized C library), while Swift's is presumably written in Swift.