Re: New regex lib? (fwd)

Guys, for PHP4 (and Apache2) we should probably look into using Henry's new regex library. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:35:05 -0500 (EST) From: Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.on.ca> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: New regex lib? Sorry for slow response... Life has been exciting, not to mention unpleasant, for the last few days. > Anyway, I am just wondering what the state of your regex library rewrite > is. I seem to recall you mentioning somewhere that you were doing a > complete rewrite... Indeed so, and it has about reached the point of being shippable; I just have not done the packaging yet. It's shipping with Tcl/Tk's 8.1 beta release, but I need to spend a bit of time putting together a standalone version -- currently it relies on the Tcl 8.1 environment. I hope to do that in the next few weeks. To sum up in a sentence or two... It has substantial new functionality, including most of the Perl extensions (although a few of them are not done quite the same way). It can handle large character sets, although as yet only in fixed-width encodings. Performance is not yet sparkling but is now decent, unlike my old alpha-release code that shipped with 4.4. A simple test set puts Tcl 8.1 regex performance roughly on par -- some things faster, some slower -- with 8.0 (essentially my original 1986 regexp package), which is noteworthy when you consider that 8.0 had 8-bit characters and 8.1 is using Unicode. Henry Spencer henry@spsystems.net (henry@zoo.toronto.edu) -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net