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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
