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Re:The cost of forsaking C by ArkyBeagle on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:30PM (#12648084)
It's (nearly) trivial to write FSM in 'C' that do what regexp do in Python.
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Re:The cost of forsaking C by kps on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @06:03PM (#12648342)
Yes, if you're matching constant regular expressions on an embedded device using a general-purpose runtime regular expression processor, you're probably Doing It Wrong™.
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