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by octref 3418 days ago
Sorry but I'm not familiar with Rust -- is it possible to run your lib in all platforms in a Node environment?

And, do you have an issue for the regex port? Would love to see the benchmark.

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Yes it would be possible to write a C wrapper for my Rust library and link that from Node, however I expect you might lose a lot of performance to data conversion.

I have yet to do the regex engine port, I'm doing that later this evening. I'm porting it from Oniguruma to https://github.com/google/fancy-regex which accelerates common types of regexes using the awesome Rust regex crate which is super fast.

Doesn't rust export the C abi? Or does the "c wrapper" just involve converting c types to rust domain types>
You can very easily export a C api from rust. And fact you would have to if you wanted to write a wrapper anyways so I think the wrapper is probably unnecessary.
Sorry that's what I meant. Just export c ABI functions in a Rust crate.