[dhosek]

Anything built to purpose (by a competent dev) will usually beat out a general purpose tool. I remember burntsushi being surprised that my purpose-built unicode segmentation code so dramatically outperformed the unicode segmentation he had in bytestring which was based on regular expressions, but personally I would be surprised if it were any different.

[burntsushi]

Do you have a link to my surprised? I would be surprised if I were surprised by a purpose built thing beating something more general purposed. :P

[dhosek]

It was on reddit. Maybe I misremembered your reaction.