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Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by lalaland1125 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @12:37PM (#22712238)
For interest's sake, did you try simply using a decent regex engine as an alternative? Any DFA regex engine implicitly implements Aho-Corasick for you.
Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by saagarjha on Saturday March 28, 2020 @03:06PM (#22713508)
I think the engineer before me put a bit of effort into this, but it didn’t work out all that well in this case. This isn’t surprising considering that the standard regex tool on the platform wasn’t known for being particularly performant.