> However, for the most part, the "efficiency" argument is off base. You can...

purewater on Aug 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rob Pike on regular expressions in lexing and pars...

> However, for the most part, the "efficiency" argument is off base. You can COMPILE regular expressions into tight code.

Rob Pike has written multiple regular expression engines and at least 4 programming languages. I think he understands the efficiency part pretty well.