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I read the following from the regexp2 module for ACL.

• The new matcher uses Perl syntax, and is nearly feature compatible with Perl. Only a few obscure features have not been implemented.
• Speed: the new matcher was designed to be fast. On the CL-PPCRE test suite (with 1600+ tests) it is on average 30% faster than Perl.

Of course, the smartarse in me immediately responds,"What, the useful few obscure features?" I think every regexp feature in Perl can be called "obscure" by some party.

A related conversation:

Tosspot: "what's all this negative lookahead assertion crap? Must not be useful!"

Me: that would buy the 30% :-)

Tosspot: "I don't have to look ahead? Cool!"

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