Would there be interest in a SERIOUS compile-time regex parser?

[Michael Butscher]

Don Clugston wrote:
> The question is -- would this be worthwhile? I'm really not interested 
> in making another toy.
> It's straightforward, but tedious, and would double the length of 
> std.regexp.

Maybe it would be simpler, but similar effective, to add some 
persistence functionality to std.regexp.RegExp.

This could mean to convert an instance of RegExp to a byte array, cache 
it in a file, later load the array back and recreate the instance.

So the "compilation" of the RE to its opcodes is done only once and 
program initialization becomes faster.


Michael