Re: regex performance

From: Thomas Maeder (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-20 11:51:57

Peter Simons <simons+boost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Just a naive question: If the regular expression parsing performance
> is of paramount importance to you,

What I said is that I might like to see something like "regex light" in Boost.
IIRC John Maddock, the creator of the Boost Regular Expressions Library,
recently wrote something similar either here or in the developers list.

> why don't you use the native
> implementation, regcomp(), regexec(), and friends?

Who says I don't use them?

I prefer platform and C++ implementation independent libraries because I like
my code to be portable.