Re: 4.0a3 - Two Regular Expression Libraries? -- We need your input!
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Mar 16, 2009
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achury said...
I'm not a regex user, so I really don't care about wich one you use. I simply would prefer the one that produces a smaller interpreter.
PCRE is about 100k, while eFTE regex is about 13k.
achury said...
But I don't like, using external C libraries for regex because is nice to have an interpreter 100% writed on euphoria. If we want to update eu.ex with regex support, we would need to implement regex on euphoria as part of the front end or as standar library .e file.
These are not external, but built into the interpreter. They already work from eu.ex but are implemented by the C backend (eu.ex just forwards the call to the C backend to do the work iiuc)
