Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> > Conversely, I'm told Perl's regex handling is supposed to be quite fast...

> I'd guess .NET is faster, if only because it compiles the regex into machine 
> code, rather than interpret it.

  I think that the concept of "interpreting" might be a bit blurred here.
I assume that perl constructs a state machine from the regexp and then does
the matching against it. How much that is "interpreting"... Hard to say.

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                                                          - Warp

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