java.util.regex

Fri May 9 09:46:00 GMT 2008

OneGuy wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> That may be so. On the other hand, perhaps Sun's JIT has discovered
>> a smart optimization that isn't visible to gcc. Profililng the
>> program may show what is happenining.
>> Even a much serious problem is with java.util.regex .. specifically,
> this method
>> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
>> static Pattern compile(String regex)
>> The String I tested (very large string), java6 could execute the
> method in few seconds. GCJ took more than one minute. It was more than
> 40 times slower.

Can you tell me what the pattern was, and what the search string was?
Thanks,
Andrew.