Re: [CFT] patch to replace the regex code

2011-06-25 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Forgive me if I'm patronizing, but is there any surprise that a POSIX NFA implementation is slower than grep's DFA? Oh, of course an NFA implementation will always be slightly slower but the memory footprint will also be smaller, which is a big advantage for embedded systems. But in this case,

Re: [CFT] patch to replace the regex code

2011-06-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 Jun 2011 15:08, "Gabor Kovesdan" wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > you may know that in the Summer of Code programme I'm working on replacing the old regex code with TRE, which is a BSD-licensed implementation. It supports wide characters, is POSIX-compliant and has a good performance compared to mos

[CFT] patch to replace the regex code

2011-06-25 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Hi Folks, you may know that in the Summer of Code programme I'm working on replacing the old regex code with TRE, which is a BSD-licensed implementation. It supports wide characters, is POSIX-compliant and has a good performance compared to most of the open source implementations. Actually, I