google/fancy-regex
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If I understand your idea right, then this is actually being done! https://github.com/google/fancy-regex
comment by burntsushi · 2017-03-24 · in The 1960's elegance behind Go's regexp -
…conditions since I'm also bottlenecked by Oniguruma. However, maybe after I port my engine to https://github.com/google/fancy-regex I'll be substantially faster. And if I do it is likely they could also benefit from a fancy-regex port.
comment by trishume · 2017-02-08 · in Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting -
…going to try to port my library to a faster engine based on Rust's regex crate. But that library ( https://github.com/google/fancy-regex ) is brand new and almost untested. It's the only open source library that is faster than Oniguruma…
comment by trishume · 2017-02-08 · in Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting -
…to do the regex engine port, I'm doing that later this evening. I'm porting it from Oniguruma to https://github.com/google/fancy-regex which accelerates common types of regexes using the awesome Rust regex crate which is super fast.
comment by trishume · 2017-02-08 · in Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting