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by burntsushi 1007 days ago
I'd love for someone to add this to rebar[1] so that we can get a good sense of how well it does against other general purpose regex engines. It will be a little tricky to add (since the build step will require emitting a C++ program and compiling it), but it should be possible.

[1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rebar
1 comments
staunton 1007 days ago
The C++ standard library "general regex engine" is crap (at speed), so there's no competition on that front at least...
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burntsushi 1007 days ago
I know. I'm not really looking to compare it with C++'s standard library regex engine. (Although if someone wanted to do that work, I would welcome it into the benchmark.)

There are other engines written in C++ (in part or in whole) in rebar. And it is useful to compare it with engines not written in C++ too.

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