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Google's RE2 regular expression library

Google's RE2 regular expression library

Posted Mar 17, 2010 21:39 UTC (Wed) by dthurston (subscriber, #4603)
In reply to: Google's RE2 regular expression library by PO8
Parent article: Google's RE2 regular expression library

I think it's more that they're giving the standard, fast performance of a proper RegExp engine to almost all of the various convenient extensions that Perl, Python, etc. have. So it's an advance in speed over Perl et al, and an advance in convenience over awk, etc.


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