John Rose wrote:
> The OpenJDK regex is a tree-walking interpreter, and needs to be updated 
> in a future release to a Gnu-style backtracking bytecode engine.  This 
> is not an architectural problem, but an implementation weakness in the 
> first release.

I think we should consider a modified version of Marcin Mielzynski's 
Joni engine that works on char[].

> That could be a utility routine in the JRuby runtime, and later a 
> patch to OpenJDK.

We did end up doing this in JRuby...and I agree we should consider 
patching what's there rather than chucking the whole thing, if what's 
there doesn't have so many such problems that it's more effort than just 
bringing in a new library.

- Charlie

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