On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 01:30:29PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > Can you tell me where the sources for the regex engine live? At the > detailed-technical-spec level, I found S05, and I can find the NQP spec, but > I don't know my way around the interpreter sources yet.
The regex engine lives in src/QRegex of the nqp repository. https://github.com/perl6/nqp/tree/master/src/QRegex > My hope is that it's possible to use the JVM port of Rakudo to compile the > regex engine to JVM bytecode. I'm not entirely familiar with Rakudo's JVM implementation, but I believe that the regex engine portion (supplied by NQP) is _already_ in JVM bytecode. Unlike PCRE, the NQP regex library isn't a C-based library that is magically linked into the runtime engine with glue. NQP compiles the regex engine (and many of NQP's other components) directly to the target VM's environment. Pm
