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Temat: [pcre-dev] [Bug 1916] Advanced data processing for an alternation with a lot of key words
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1916

--- Comment #15 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> ---
(In reply to Markus Elfring from comment #14)
> (In reply to Philip Hazel from comment #13)
>
> Thanks for another constructive feedback.
>
> * How are the chances to change the mentioned software inefficiency in
> significant ways?
>
> * Can your current regular expression engine perform cost analysis so that
> it could determine at which number of “key words” (or “branches”) in the
> alternation it would make sense to work also with a corresponding trie
> variant which would be generated on demand as a special service?
>
> * Will advanced indexing approaches become feasible here?


Look, all this is very interesting, but PCRE is designed as a general regex
engine. I have no intention of trying to add anything special for matching
lists of fixed strings because the right thing to do is to write specialist
code for such applications.

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