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From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@kovesdan.org>
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Subject: regex status report #1
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Hi,

I've made some tests with TRE and so far found two incompatibilities 
with base regex:
1, The curly bracketed repetition expressions can have the lowe bound 
missing, where 0 is inferred. This behaviour is more permissive so 
probably won't be a problem.
2, Missing REG_STARTEND flag that could be used with regexec(). This has 
been implemented.

I've got it built inside libc and it works well. It has a literal 
matching mode, which is very efficient. However, in some conditions it 
underperforms our base regex. Now I'm looking at this. I would like to 
improve the performance a bit before I publish a patch for testing.

Gabor