Do we need faster regex?

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 18/12/2023 10:20 PM, Anonymouse wrote:
> I really like regex as a thing, but I have had to drop it because of the 
> increased compilation memory and time requirements that use of 
> |std.regex| incurred. Maybe that can't be avoided, I don't know.
> 
> I have not had that much use for backreferences, so to me the important 
> part is that it doesn't require me to have 300+ Mb more RAM and an extra 
> second or two on the wall clock to compile.

As long as you use std.regex at runtime this is no longer the case.

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/8699

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/8698

Looks like I messed up and not got it into the changelog.

Anyway 2.103 should be the release that have them in it.