> If it were easy to implement all java regex features in > dk.brics.automaton.RegExp, then they probably would have. Alternately, > if they'd implemented all java regex features, it probably wouldn't be > so fast. So I worry that attempts to translate are doomed. Better to > accept the differences: if you want the speed, you must use restricted > regexes.
That's right. It is a deterministic API => more speed, but less functionality. > 3. Add new plugins that use dk.brics.automaton.RegExp, using different > default regex file names. Then folks can, if they choose, configure > things to use these faster regex libraries, but only if they're willing > to write the simpler regexes that it supports. If, over time, we find > that the most useful regexes are easily converted, then we could switch > the default to this. +1 I will doing it this way. Thanks Doug. Jérôme -- http://motrech.free.fr/ http://www.frutch.org/
