Re: [Lightning] Just an idea: ragel backend in lightning

[Ludovic Courtès]

Bruno Loff <address@hidden> skribis:

> It would be awesome and actually quite natural if one were to use lightning
> as a backend. Then the regular expression gets converted directly into
> machine code, at runtime! If well done the efficiency should be unbeatable.
> It seems that .net has something like this, but I'm not sure how well-done
> it is. (e.g. not clear whether it compiles to machine code or virtual
> machine code, would need to read more about it).

ISTR Paolo Bonzini contemplated this idea when still maintaining both
sed and lightning.  :-)

Similarly, some people used a JIT for a grep implementation:

  https://github.com/coreperf/rejit

Thanks,
Ludo’.