Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Konstantinos Margaritis<mar...@debian.org>
* Package name : vectorscan
Version : 5.4.6
Upstream Author : Vectorscan Team<vectors...@vectorcamp.gr>
* URL :https://github.com/VectorCamp/vectorscan
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: C, C++
Description :Portable fork of Intel's Hyperscan library Vectorscan is a portable fork
of Intel's Hyperscan project. It is a drop-in replacement that promises
to be API/ABI compatible with the original project, while allowing it to
run on other architectures such as AArch64 and IBM Power9. Hyperscan is
a high-performance multiple regex matching library. It follows the
regular expression syntax of the commonly-used libpcre library, but is a
standalone library with its own C API. Hyperscan uses hybrid automata
techniques to allow simultaneous matching of large numbers (up to tens
of thousands) of regular expressions and for the matching of regular
expressions across streams of data. Hyperscan is typically used in a DPI
library stack. Vectorscan only runs on CPUs with a SIMD unit. On x86
CPUs, the minimum requirement is SSE4.2, AArch64 ISA already implies
Advanced SIMD/NEON and ppc64le (Power8/Power9) already implies VSX
enabled by default.
My company, Vectorcamp, actively develops this and we have an interest in
having this included in Debian.
Konstantinos Margaritis
