Author: ph10 Date: To: C.J. Adams-Collier CC: Chris Collier, pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] PCRE as FPGA
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> Have any of the list members considered putting PCRE on dedicated silicon
> and what that might entail?
No idea, but there was that URL somebody else posted here.
> For example, what services does libpcre depend
> on in terms of system calls and state management which might not be
> available without a kernel between it and the hardware?
PCRE (and PCRE2 - you should probably be looking at the new API,
recently released, not yet got spread around much) uses only the
services available in Standard C. The only one that involves the OS is
memory management, and even that can be avoided by providing your own
hooks - the API for this is much improved for PCRE2.
