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From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-05-25 14:59:27


On 2020-05-25 11:28, Dimitri John Ledkov via Boost wrote:
>
> If boost-regex is better, should Ubuntu switch to it as the default
> std::regex provider? Such that anything built on or for Ubuntu uses the
> faster implementation?

As a user of Ubuntu, I would certainly prefer if the faster
implementation was used (which is Boost.Regex).

That said, I think it's not so much a choice of Ubuntu (or Debian)
package maintainers but rather that of the upstream projects.

Somewhat on that note, just recently I (among other users) reported a
KDE performance bug[1] which appeared in the latest Kubuntu and turned
out to be caused by std::regex. The currently proposed solution is to
replace it with a manual parser.

[1]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414036


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