On 03/02/2016 11:53, Bernard Devlin wrote:
Perl outperforms everything in that test. I've never assumed that LC's
"perl compatiable regex library" is going to perform at the speed which
actual Perl performs. I've always assumed that being "perl compatible" just
meant that all syntactically-correct Perl regexs should run with LC's
implementation, without needing any kind of change in how the regex is
formatted.
To be precise, LiveCode uses the PCRE library, which is generally
considered to be the *definitive* implementation of Perl Compatible
Regular Expressions: http://www.pcre.org/. There isn't a special
LiveCode-specific implementation of regular expressions involved.
Peter
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Dr Peter Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com>
LiveCode Open Source Team
LiveCode on reddit: https://reddit.com/r/livecode
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