Re: [Chicken-users] dev-snapshot 4.6.3

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 09:35:19AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> I understand the merits of reducing core dependencies, but have
> performance comparisons been made?  The last I heard, irregex was
> *much* slower than regex.

It used to be, but the upcoming 0.8.2 release has been improved a *lot*,
and that code is included in the new Chicken snapshot.

Cheers,
Peter
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