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Re:Needle: A DFA Based Regex Library That Compiles to JVM By... by hyperpape on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @06:56AM (#40296530)
Author here: one thing I didn't mention in the post, but which is mentioned in the issues/readme on GitHub is that while I've been working on this for awhile, it's still a pretty new project in many ways. So what you're describing is interesting, but probably premature. The generated class files can still be very large, and the compiler itself has comments like "TODO: O(n^2)" that make throwing arbitrary input at it a dodgy idea.

Beyond those factors, there's the matter of just proving out that my testing is good enough, and I haven't missed edge cases.

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