On 17.10.2012 13:53, Stefan Küng wrote: > On 17.10.2012 18:20, Hyrum K Wright wrote: >> Anyway, I was just wondering what folks feelings were about this >> possibility, and whether it's finally time to start thinking about >> proper regex support within Subversion. > > I'm wondering: if C++ is an option, why not use the regex that comes > with the C++ library itself? > http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/regex
Because regexes are part of a C++ standard that was only published a year ago and most compiler/library toolchains don't support them yet. And, of course, they're not likely to have the kind of linear performance characteristics promised by RE2. -- Brane -- Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download
