Re:How I got involved in the Rust community
by burntsushi on Sunday December 11, 2022 @02:37PM
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Why wouldn't you? The other poster hasn't even said which regex engine or which tool they're measuring.
PCRE is absolutely a competitor to Rust's regex crate and it makes sense to compare them.
If all you're doing is measuring the time it takes to find `foo` or `\w+_foo`, then the specific regex engine being used is just an implementation detail.
I'm not saying that using --pcre2 is wrong. It is certainly a useful comparison. But using the default regex engine when the task is "measure a grep" is certainly not wrong either.
PCRE is absolutely a competitor to Rust's regex crate and it makes sense to compare them.
If all you're doing is measuring the time it takes to find `foo` or `\w+_foo`, then the specific regex engine being used is just an implementation detail.
I'm not saying that using --pcre2 is wrong. It is certainly a useful comparison. But using the default regex engine when the task is "measure a grep" is certainly not wrong either.