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MATCHING REGEXPS 200 TIMES FASTER

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Thanks to TruffleRuby's advanced JIT compiler and regular expression engine (TRegex), idiomatic Ruby code using regular expressions can outperform equivalent C implementations and even hand-written SIMD code in tasks like JSON string escaping, Time parsing, and integer scanning.