At 11:10 AM 11/26/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
>Dan Sugalski;
># What I really want to know is whether using ops to do regexes
># is feasable.
># After that we'll work on programmatically generating the op stream.
>
>There are definitely some weaknesses to it (for example, it's hard to do
>operations on 'optimized' forms of things, like using bitmaps on
>strings) but it's certainly feasable. (And that particular example can
>be sped up by caching in a hash once hashes are available.)
Then lets have some numbers! :) If all the general-purpose stuff's not good
enough for RE performance, now is the time to find out. If it's not, we can
do whatever we need to, short of single-threading regexes, to make them faster.
Dan
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