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		CatMtKing on April 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go 1.1beta1 now on the benchmarks game Looks like there's a reimplementation of RE2 in Go that might we worth benchmarking against. https://code.google.com/p/sre2/

igouy on April 17, 2013 | [–]

So what approach is implemented in the Go distribution?

ori_b on April 17, 2013 | [–]

The same as re2 (and, in fact, written by the same authors as re2)

igouy on April 17, 2013 | | [–]

So why is the C++ regex-dna program that uses RE2 so much faster?

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/program.php?test...

And why did someone do "a reimplementation of RE2 in Go" ?

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