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This is PIRE, Perl Incompatible Regular Expressions library.
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This library is aimed at checking a huge amount of text against
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relatively many regular expressions. Roughly speaking, it can just
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check whether given text maches the certain regexp, but can do it
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really fast (more than 400 MB/s on our hardware is common). Even
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more, multiple regexps can be combined together, giving capability
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to check the text against apx.10 regexps in a single pass (and
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mantaining the same speed).
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Since Pire examines each character only once, without any lookaheads
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or rollbacks, spending about five machine instructions per each
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character, it can be used even in realtime tasks.
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On the other hand, Pire has very limited functionality (compared
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to other regexp libraries). Pire does not have any Perlish conditional
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regexps, lookaheads & backtrackings, greedy/nongreedy matches;
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neither has it any capturing facilities.
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