i am afraid that thread goes straight perpendicular to what re2 is supposed to be, or do. my suggestion for these folks would be to create a new, clean interface to stop the violence that comes with the Python ``re`` interface, and open the thing up so one can plug in ``re`` implementations as are needed. when i absolutely need a feature, i can always go to the slower machine; simpler regular expressions could be dealt with more efficiently.
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