On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 23:14, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > On 19 Aug 2010, at 16:49, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > > > >> Well asking without giving yourself some data make it irrelevant but > > > > Not really. > > > > I'm suggesting that if we're going to use performance as an argument, we > use data and not supposition. > > The way pattern matching works should explain by itself though ;) > AFAIK Erlang ships with Perl-compatible regular expressions written in C. re:compile() Anyway the whole performance argument is not relevant. Who cares? You are about to do a b-tree lookup from the hard disk. How much will regex vs. pattern match on a 20-byte string matter? My point was, why are we inventing syntax out of our asses for every different situation? Regular expressions should be considered because: 1. They match patterns 2. They capture groups and can access them later 3. Everybody knows them -- Jason Smith Couchio Hosting
