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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-11907: ---------------------------------------- bq. Seems like something that should "bake" in trunk for a bit before we add it to a point release. The default engine is still the Java regex. You have to ask for the new engine using the new constructor. Why does this need to "bake"? > Use the joni byte[] regex engine in place of j.u.regex in > RegexStringComparator > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-11907 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11907 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Andrew Purtell > Assignee: Andrew Purtell > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.0.0, 0.98.7, 0.99.1 > > Attachments: HBASE-11907.patch, HBASE-11907.patch, HBASE-11907.patch > > > The joni regex engine (https://github.com/jruby/joni), a Java port of > Oniguruma regexp library done by the JRuby project, is: > - MIT licensed > - Designed to work with byte[] arguments instead of String > - Capable of handling UTF8 encoding > - Regex syntax compatible > - Interruptible > - *About twice as fast as j.u.regex* > - Has JRuby's jcodings library as a dependency, also MIT licensed -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)