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Re:My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter by duaneb on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:16PM (#12554071)
A lot of optimizations on arbitrary byte code often look for patterns in byte streams (or in reified assembly) in similar ways to regexes.
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Re:My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter by teraflop on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:58PM (#12554224)
For many years, an important stage of the GHC Haskell compiler consisted of a giant Perl script full of regexes.

http://code.haskell.org/ghc-scp/ghc/docs/comm/the-beast/mang...

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