To be clear, I am not advocating this approach. I was merely trying to illustrate what a nightmare such an endeavor would be. :)
On Sunday, February 1, 2015, James Carman <[email protected]> wrote: > You would basically have to pick a canonical regex language if you want a > facade and be able to swap the regex library out. Most of them are very > similar but they are not the same. > > On Sunday, February 1, 2015, Gary Gregory <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> I think we'll need some clear performance advantages documented as well as >> any compatibility issues. >> >> This begs for a facade API IMO. I would not want to recode my app just to >> test one vs. the other, it should be pluggable. >> >> Gary >> >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Benson Margulies <[email protected] >> > >> wrote: >> >> > So, once upon a time, there was a regex library here. It was retired, >> > presumably on the grounds that it was rendered obsolete by the JRE's >> > native support. >> > >> > However, the JRE's regular expressions have a pretty severe problem; >> > they have unbounded (or at least, very, very, bad) execution time for >> > some combinations of data and regex. >> > >> > To cope with this, we ported the Henry Spencer regular expression >> > library (as found in TCL) from C to Java. >> > >> > Thus: https://github.com/basis-technology-corp/tcl-regex-java >> > >> > Is anyone interested in this? Give or take the possible IP muddle of >> > the original C Code, I could grant it easily. >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> >
