Go / Golang's RegExp / String Performance
Working with Go I've experienced some perceived slowness when performing RegEx operations on strings. I've looked for benchmarks and found this one . In some areas Go kann keep up with Java but when it comes to string operations ("regex-dna" benchmark), Go is even much slower than Ruby or Python. Is the status quo going to improve anytime soon? And why is Go so terribly slow when it comes to string/RegEx operations? And here is the explanation why... , and this one, shows the explanation even graphically .