On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Roger Pack <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Being a Ruby shop we try to use Ruby everywhere but when it does come
>> to grinding through logfiles (some several gigs in size) we had to go
>> with Perl. The string processing and regex matching was so much
>> faster. We couldn't get Ruby even close :( Speed was essential, we
>> couldn't just sit around and wait for the process to complete.
>
> https://github.com/michaeledgar/ruby-boost-regex
> might be useful, if it ends up being regex's that are the slowdown :)

Interesting.  Thank you for the pointer!  Too bad it does not support
encodings which is probably a show stopper for inclusion in the core
lib.  At least as standard regexp engine it's not usable.  Apparently
boost regexp's support Unicode but I guess adjustment need some effort
- and then the question is whether performance gains are still so big.

Kind regards

robert

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