Regular Expression Benchmark – Which Language Is The Best?

As of today, here is the result:

Docker image was run on: MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019), 2.4 GHz Intel Core i9, 32 GB 2667 Mhz DDR4 with macOS Big Sur 11.2.3.

Language	Email(ms)	URI(ms)	IP(ms)	Total(ms)
Nim Regex	1.32	26.92	7.84	36.09
Nim	22.70	21.49	6.75	50.94
Rust	26.66	25.70	5.28	57.63
PHP	42.87	46.30	5.17	94.33
C++ Boost	44.97	44.13	15.13	104.23
Javascript	59.00	47.23	1.50	107.73
Perl	94.92	63.96	20.37	179.25
Julia	104.58	86.55	5.01	196.14
C PCRE2	126.10	112.17	13.10	251.37
Crystal	128.19	112.70	13.18	254.07
C# .Net Core	115.05	106.05	42.71	263.81
Dart	104.10	107.64	76.51	288.25
D ldc	165.46	165.20	4.85	335.51
D dmd	187.94	189.92	5.32	383.18
Ruby	233.88	208.85	43.14	485.86
Python PyPy2	158.34	139.70	253.77	551.81
Dart Native	278.54	307.54	5.77	591.85
Python 2	197.92	131.74	294.42	624.08
Kotlin	186.20	223.05	287.49	696.74
Java	198.33	221.87	287.81	708.01
Python PyPy3	258.78	221.89	257.35	738.03
Python 3	273.86	190.79	319.13	783.78
Go	248.14	241.28	360.90	850.32
C++ STL	433.09	344.74	245.66	1023.49
C# Mono	2859.05	2431.87	145.82	5436.75

The following results are for the optimized version.

Language	Email(ms)	URI(ms)	IP(ms)	Total(ms)
Rust	11.43	11.40	5.11	27.94
Nim Regex	1.37	25.51	7.27	34.15
Nim	22.79	21.64	6.77	51.21
C PCRE2	46.22	36.92	4.73	87.87
PHP	43.18	46.71	5.23	95.12
C++ Boost	44.68	44.50	15.10	104.28
Javascript	59.20	47.67	1.61	108.48
C# .Net Core	61.76	47.86	11.63	121.25
Perl	96.00	63.39	20.59	179.99
Julia	104.31	87.98	5.16	197.45
Crystal	129.52	116.33	13.12	258.97
Dart	105.82	107.78	78.18	291.78
D ldc	167.60	165.71	5.07	338.37
D dmd	187.66	192.16	5.55	385.37
Ruby	236.93	206.51	43.70	487.14
Python PyPy2	161.33	143.56	258.06	562.96
Dart Native	273.17	306.14	5.89	585.20
Python 2	200.54	132.89	290.26	623.69
Kotlin	184.13	220.31	273.76	678.21
Java	190.74	223.77	275.24	689.75
Python PyPy3	268.41	226.74	261.17	756.32
Python 3	273.70	194.09	322.09	789.88
Go	244.14	238.40	365.27	847.81
C++ STL	433.18	341.07	246.85	1021.10
C# Mono	1400.04	1189.50	145.73	2735.28

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