On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 17:39:01 +0200, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum 10353@lyskom.lysator.liu.se wrote:
You can still want things which do not exist. :-) But given the attitude of the author I don't expect I'll be wanting either that or hyperscan. If _you_ want something which is only of interest to "network [companies] looking to scan 5,000 complex regexes in streaming mode" (who does that?), feel free to integrate it, but keep it on Monger please.
OK, I see your standing. There are two clarifications needed though. First, "the author" of Hyperscan is not only Geoff Langdale, but quite a big team. Second, the library is useful not only for network security hardware. It's used by GitHub (https://github.blog/2018-10-17-behind-the-scenes-of-github-token-scanning/) and in general is just faster than current regexp engines' state of art. Top view of constraints and areas of improvements is described on https://www.hyperscan.io/2015/10/20/match-regular-expressions/.
br, tj.