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		ChrisAntaki on Nov 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yahoo Mail moving to React > That's not an objective comparison, since Javascript has been optimized to deal with arrays and numbers What were your thoughts on the regex-dna benchmark?

meowface on Nov 26, 2014 | [–]

V8 is able to compile PCREs directly into efficient machine code (in some cases at least), CPython is not.

See: http://blog.chromium.org/2009/02/irregexp-google-chromes-new...

ChrisAntaki on Nov 26, 2014 | | [–]

Thanks for the insight!

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