You completely misunderstood and misrepresented the article. Google previously used a publicly available open source library for handling their regular expressions in JavaScript. They removed that and replaced it with their in house implementation. They did not dump their in house code in favor of something faster developed elsewhere as the article states. They did the opposite.
You completely misunderstood and misrepresented the article. Google previously used a publicly available open source library for handling their regular expressions in JavaScript. They removed that and replaced it with their in house implementation. They did not dump their in house code in favor of something faster developed elsewhere as the article states. They did the opposite.