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by TylerGlaiel 1088 days ago
oh yeah C++ regex is stupidly inefficient, like "python is faster" inefficient. I tried to use it for text replacements and pretty much immediately abandoned it
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Apparently typical implementations of std::regex are inefficient like "'popen("perl..")' is faster" is inefficient!

I thing boost::regex is significantly faster although not particularly fast