Do we need faster regex?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 06:34:51PM +0000, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> A runtime cache should work, btw std.regex caches regexes (at least
> those passed as strings to match* family of functions).

Cool, didn't know that. :-)


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> > - Get rid of ctRegex -- it adds a huge compile-time cost with
> >   questionable runtime benefit. Unless there's a way to do this at
> >   compile-time that *doesn't* add like 5 seconds per regex to
> >   compile times.
> 
> Yup it's dropped, to be eventually replaced by JIT which is both
> better at compile-time and much more flexible at run-time.
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Awesome stuff!


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