[plt-scheme] performance of pregexp

At Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:55:28 +0100, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> It looks to me that, compared to perl, the pregexp library
> of mzscheme is very slow.
> 
> - Am I right about this?

Yes. 

> - If yes, would it not be an idea to bind PCRE to mzscheme?

That seems like a fine idea to me.

I think there's much less difference between Perl and the `regexp'
functions that are built into MzScheme (as opposed to the "pregexp.ss"
library). So that's why there hasn't been a lot of pressure to bind to
PCRE, even though MzScheme's `regexp' less powerful than PCRE.

Matthew