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Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React by ChrisAntaki on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:43PM (#8663503)
> That's not an objective comparison, since Javascript has been optimized to deal with arrays and numbers

What were your thoughts on the regex-dna benchmark?

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Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React by meowface on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:53PM (#8663581)
V8 is able to compile PCREs directly into efficient machine code (in some cases at least), CPython is not.

See: http://blog.chromium.org/2009/02/irregexp-google-chromes-new...

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Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React by ChrisAntaki on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @01:00PM (#8663640)
Thanks for the insight!
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