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		majke on Oct 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: V8 performance can beat C sometimes If I read this benchmark right: v8 regexps are faster than TCL regexps. Hardly surprising.

pmelendez on Oct 11, 2013 [–]

I also beats all the other regexps engines though.

kg on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

Likely because V8 only works on platforms where JIT is possible, so the regex engine relies on JITting specialized native code for the regex. A portable C/C++ regex library can't really do that.

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