On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Alan Post <alanp...@sunflowerriver.org> wrote: > > How did irregex, which by account is slower, replace the existing > regex code?
I didn't make the call, but as I understand that was motivated by portability concerns, simplifying the Chicken distribution, and avoiding the frequently occurring memory bugs in PCRE. So speed wasn't a concern, but there is a class of regexps for which irregex is exponentially faster than PCRE. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
