Re: A matter of comparison

Read the archives there are several posts on this, with reasonably details 
comparisons. From memory I believe that there were instances where Oro was 
faster and instances where Java Regexp was faster depending on the input and 
the regular expression used. But read the archive theres more detail there.

On Thursday, 18 September, 2003 19:26, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm a very happy oro user because it matches the perl5.x regexps best.
> Speed is not really an issue for me as I use it merely in batch like
> processes. Rarely in reallife internet apps.
> I would recommend boycotting Sun and their regexp, as they ccuurently
> copy-paste all the nice open source code in a Micro$oft way (without the
> $$). Besides that a lot of java programmers still use 1.3, using 1.4
> regexp would make your code downwards incompatible. On the other hand I
> remember a mail from Daniel F S @ some point stating that oro is slower
> than sun 1.4 regexp.
> I wouldnt use jakarta regexp, as I ve never seen being used. Oro is
> supplied in many industry packages, and I would consider it the industry
> standard for this moment.
> Maybe you should use both and see which one you like best!
> Good luck,
> Jeroen.
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am posting on both groups as I am deciding.  How does ORO and RegExp
> > compare to the regexp package in Java?  Pros and Cons?
> >   I am looking for comparitive info (speed, space, features) to decide
> > which I should pick.  Of course, I will try to search
> > for articles which deal with these topics, but any input based on real
> > world experience would be appreciated.
> >
> > waiting for reply,
> >
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> >
> > Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath,
> > Dept. Computing and Information Science,
> > Kansas State University, US.
> > web: http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~rvprasad
> >
> >
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