Regular expressions performance: Boost vs. Perl

Question

I\'m looking for a performance comparison between perl and boost regular expression.
I need to design a piece of code which relies very heavily on regular expressions, and c

Answer 1

Unless your regex is insanely complex (for which perl's regex engine is incredibly fast by the way) then as other's have said, your overhead is in interpreter startup. On the other hand you could run a persistent perl that provides a regex server quite easily.