[phobos] Historic background of std.regex and BacktrackingMatcher
Mai Lapyst
mai at lapyst.by
Thu Oct 5 11:36:17 UTC 2023
I'm currently working through the dmd (and phobos for that
matter), and come across it's regex implementation. Here I found
out it makes rather heavy usage of malloc / pureMalloc; on one
side to allocate the Matcher implementation inside
`GenericFactory`; on the other side in `BacktrackingMatcher` for
memory of it's stack.
Is there any historic reason why it dosnt uses more D-like
features like `new` or dynamic arrays? It would certainly be
safer to do so than using an untyped region of memory as
stack-space.
Also: if it needs "plain" memory; would this code be a good
candidate to utilize `std.experimental.allocator` once released?
Cheers,
Mai
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