Sad Erlang Panda

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/performance.php?test=regexdna

1.0  JavaScript V8 #2        3.80   3.81
1.4  C gcc                   5.40   5.41
  (...)
7.0  PHP #3                 26.49   26.50
7.0  C gcc #2               26.73   26.73
7.4  Haskell GHC #2         28.35   28.37
8.0  Perl #2                30.59   30.63
  (...)
24  C# Mono #6              90.58   90.67
34  Erlang HiPE #6         128.94   129.11
84  Smalltalk VisualWorks   5 min   5 min


I know Erlang string handling in general has been terrible! for a long time but this should have had some attention at some point by now? What the shit is JavaScript is doing up there at the top anyway? I refuse to believe this madness.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=regexdna&lang=gcc&id=1
That "C" program is actually using Tcl regexp engine. Unfortunately none of the C submissions wrote their own, as otherwise it'd be easy to beat JS.