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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> A strange thing to conclude from your figures, which show pcre as the 
>> fastest out of several libraries that you tested.
>>     
>
> The best of the worse. Yes. An external (!) program was 4x faster than 
> pcre. I don't know how to make it more obvious that pcre sucks.
>   

Oh, your position is obvious enough, but it is correct and supportable
by the available evidence? Why not read past the first paragraph of my
post and reply to that.

Sam.