On Thu 02 Jan 2014 07:31:56 AM PST, Nicolas B. Pierron wrote: > I think we can do better by implementing a regexp compiler which > *targets* JavaScript instead of assembly. By generating asm.js-like > code for regexp, we can have good generated code and we can easily > apply all the rules we already have for calling / *inlining* them in > Ion code.
I had a similar thought, but a little different -- could we take a good C-based regex engine and compile it via emscripten to produce a self-hosted implementation? I'm thinking of something like pcre. There would probably be some perf rough edges, especially since this would be walking over strings not simple byte arrays. I don't know how hard it would be to smooth those out. (Nor have I looked at the pcre code.) String encoding might be ugly. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-internals mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-internals
