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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Andrews
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:07 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex 
> processing to zIIP / zAAP?
> 
> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 14:36 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
> > wonder if they would be open to making a "System regex" engine ala
> > System XML to offload regular expressions
> 
> Isn't most regex processing against individual lines of text (rather
> than, say, entire files)?   I imagine an engine dispatch is much more
> costly than the actual regex processing per line of text.

Hum, how much overhead is the switching from a CP to a zIIP or zAAP?
Curious minds want to know!

> 
> > Also, has anybody heard of an official NetREXX for z/OS? 
> That is REXX
> > which compiles to Java byte codes and should run on a zAAP.
> 
> I was looking for an excuse to see if Armed Bear Lisp would 
> run.  Alas,
> too much real work to do.  busybusybusy
> 
> -- 
> David Andrews


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John McKown
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