Zopyra Regexp

From: William Kempf (sirwillard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-06 18:35:29

John,

I saw a posting on the usenet recently about a competing regexp 
library that specifically mentions the Boost library.  You can find 
it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/regx.  The author claims 
substantially faster compile times over your library and faster 
executable times, though he admits to only minor bench marking.  The 
compilation times are likely due to the fact that he's not using 
templates and I doubt you can do much to improve this in the Boost 
regexp, nor do I think it's much of an issue.  The runtime speed 
difference is interesting, however.  If the claim is true maybe you 
can determine how the algorithms differ in order to speed up the 
Boost implementation.

Obviously not a priority (not even something that must/should be 
done), just thought you might be interested.

Bill