[Haskell-cafe] Fastest regex package?

[Don Stewart]

allbery:
> On 2009 Feb 5, at 10:26, Eugene Kirpichov wrote:
>> My benchmark (parsing a huge logfile with a regex like "GET
>> /foo.xml.*fooid=([0-9]++).*barid=([0-9]++)") shows that plain PCRE is
>> the fastest one (I tried PCRE, PCRE-light and TDFA; DFA can't do
>> capturing groups at all, TDFA was abysmally slow (about 20x slower
>> than PCRE), and it doesn't support ++), but maybe have I missed any
>> blazing-fast package?
>
>
> I think dons (copied) will want to hear about this; pcre-light is  
> supposed to be a fast lightweight wrapper for the PCRE library, and if  
> it's slower than PCRE then something is likely to be wrong somewhere.

Shouldn't be slower (assuming you're using bytestrings).

-- Don