• M (6/6) Feb 09 2006 I was looking through the speed comparison results and noticed that comp...

M <M_member pathlink.com> writes:

I was looking through the speed comparison results and noticed that compilers
like C C++ and D all kinda fail the regex-dna bench, while fortan perl and
python have no problems with it. 

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=regexdna&lang=all

Why this enormous difference?
(sorry if this is a really n00b question)