ongoing � Java Regex Wrangling

Tim Bray on java vs. perl when it comes to regexes. Counting 15 million matched tokens in 100MB file: Perl: 8min 47sec, Java: 3 min 4 Sec. (OS X, possibly on Debian linux as well.)

ongoing � Java Regex Wrangling

Tim Bray: "Java regex is within 10% of speed of perl regex. But regex results are occassional variations around international characters."