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Re: Problem of the type requirement of the regex library

From: Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen_at_[hidden]>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:29:24 +0200
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 00:02, Thiago Macieira via Std-Discussion
<std-discussion_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Anyway, as far as I understand from Ville, std::regex has serious flaws. Qt 6
> briefly considered using it but decided to stay with PCRE2.

The flaws I know about are QoI, the shipping implementations have bad
performance. Whether std::regex
has any specification problems that would perhaps lead to said bad
performance, I don't know.

Received on 2019-12-28 16:32:04