Re: DotStar regex package

Chris F Clark <cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Tue, 11 May 2010 17:43:51 -0400

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From: Chris F Clark <cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:43:51 -0400
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: 10-05-054
Keywords: lex
Posted-Date: 12 May 2010 00:59:08 EDT

One last comment on the DotStar package. The speed up they are
talking about applies to looking at unanchored regular expressions in
large buffers. (This is something one does a lot in network
security.) You can do related speed ups on some anchored regular
expressions (i.e. what one uses in lexing), but the significance of
doing so is significantly less. For simple anchored regular
expressions, what one generally uses in lexing, the standard
regex->NFA->DFA construction is generally optimal.


Hope this helps,
-Chris


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