Profile subject: *Regex*

[cullin-lam-simplisafe]

Profile subject: Regex

Rationale

I'd like to compare the performance between different regex operations.
For example I'd like to compare the speed of the following functions

• String.search(regex)
  -String.match(regex)
• Regex.test(string)
  -Regex.exec(string)

Profiled functionality

• String.search(regex)
  -String.match(regex)
• Regex.test(string)
  -Regex.exec(string)

We can profile performance as the length of the string to search increases
We can also profile different regular expressions that uses different features such as look behind and look ahead

[haensl]

Hi,

I think comparing different Regex operations is a great enhancement!

Feel free to create a profile and submit a PR for it.

If you don't feel like coding the profiling it'll have to wait a bit since I'm quite occupied at the moment.