Re: [boost] Greta download

From: John Maddock (jm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-25 06:50:03

> >Any independent verifications that Greta is 7 times faster than Regexp++?

See
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/proposals/exregex.htm
In short it depends on what you are trying to do (as ever).  BTW I have
never got GRETA to compile with anything other than VC7, but maybe Eric can
jump in and correct me there...

> >Please gurus, drive this bloat issue to the max. We currently need a good
> >regular expression for the great Scintilla editor component -
> >the PCRE license is not interesting, but the bloat is preventing the
> >use of Regexp++. The whole Scintilla editor with basic regular expression
> >support is 190 KB (with VC++ 6.0), to add 550 KB+ dll regular
> >expresssion seems too much :((

Then don't use the dll!  Static linking to boost.regex should add about 50K
to your app (in tests the minimal test program was 56K with VC7).  If that's
still too much then I suggest that your expectations are unreasonable.

John Maddock
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/index.htm