On 20/06/04 14:02, "Avi Bryant" <avi at beta4.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jun 20, 2004, at 8:23 AM, Ned Konz wrote:
> 
>> There are also some all-Smalltalk regex packages available; I haven't
>> tried
>> them or compared them against the plugin-based one (which is quite
>> fast and
>> complete, and comes with a number of tests).
> 
> I did some benchmarking a while ago of the port of Vassili's regex
> package against the plugin, and wrote this to the list:
> 
> "
> It did amazingly well - although it takes about 20x as long to compile
> a pattern, when actually matching the plugin only gave about a 3x speed
> boost.  Given that either way we're talking tens of thousands of
> matches per second for most input, I'm not sure a plugin is really
> necessary.
> "
> 
> One advantage of using an all-Smalltalk package is that your code is
> more portable; it would be a real hassle to get a PCRE plugin going on
> VW or Dolphin, but Vassili's matcher already runs on them.  This may
> not be a concern for everyone, but it is for me.
> 
> Avi
> 
> 
I doing some work with Vassili's regex (not so complete) but in case a vote
is needed, thinks what not having pluggins is better.

Speed vs portablility is the case ?


Edgar