I think we'll need some clear performance advantages documented as well as any compatibility issues.
This begs for a facade API IMO. I would not want to recode my app just to test one vs. the other, it should be pluggable. Gary On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
