Controversial opinion time: The advantages of Thompson NFA regexes are just theoretical and not worth it. PCRE is faster in the real world.
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Replying to @pcwalton
@pcwalton Russ Cox makes a pretty good case for the Thompson method here: http://bit.ly/1g2dX7s . I'm planning on writing a version in Rust.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
Replying to @GraphenePunk
@graphenepunk Those benefits are theoretical. People don't write those pathological regexes in practice.
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