why regexprep much slower than strrep

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Oleg Komarov
Oleg Komarov 2014-11-16
Consider the following simplified example:
str = cellstr(repmat('987_890',1e5,1));
timeit(@()strrep(str,'_',''))
timeit(@()regexprep(str,'_',''))
strrep is ~3x faster than regexprep() on R014b - Win7 - cpu i5 3rd gen.
I reckon regexprep carries some overhead for being more flexible but I would expect it to be slightly slower than strrep unless it does the replacement on the go (to allow backtracking). However, in this simple substitution I hoped the engine was smart enough to recognize it does not need to backtrack.
Any thoughts?

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