On 1/31/15 8:58 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > So, once upon a time, there was a regex library here. It was retired, > presumably on the grounds that it was rendered obsolete by the JRE's > native support. > > However, the JRE's regular expressions have a pretty severe problem; > they have unbounded (or at least, very, very, bad) execution time for > some combinations of data and regex. > > To cope with this, we ported the Henry Spencer regular expression > library (as found in TCL) from C to Java. > > Thus: https://github.com/basis-technology-corp/tcl-regex-java > > Is anyone interested in this? Give or take the possible IP muddle of > the original C Code, I could grant it easily.
Anyone know the probability that JDK lameness gets addressed "soon?" If the answer is anything other than "in progress" I would see this as a good idea and Commons is a good place for it. You can start in the sandbox any time you want and see if others wander by to join. Normal Incubator IP clearance rules apply; but other than that, its JFDI. Phil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
