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Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:14:57 -0700
From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9ports performance
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the implementation of regexps in the plan 9 library is pretty pokey.
it's nice and short but it is not fast.

that said, the factor of 5 to look at a single character seems a little
high. not impossibly high, but high.

-rob