Looking for a new maintainer for std.uni/std.regex

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Thu Nov 3 05:39:17 UTC 2022


On 03/11/2022 7:46 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> Are you looking for fixes or an entire rework on it?
> 
> What would be the point in the entire rework? It took about 4 months to 
> write it from scratch, plus the bug fixes found after that. If anything 
> I had a plan to support JITing regexes which should work faster than 
> CTFE static regex codegen plus avoiding the compile-time penalty. Even 
> that doesn’t require an entire rework, in fact it would nicely fit into 
> what is there.

One of the libraries I listed from day one that ImportC had to support 
is sljit.

They have their own regex implementation which of course is JIT'd.

It would be a good candidate to be included in Phobos.

https://github.com/zherczeg/sljit


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