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0 pointsduaneb9y ago0 comments

A lot of optimizations on arbitrary byte code often look for patterns in byte streams (or in reified assembly) in similar ways to regexes.

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For many years, an important stage of the GHC Haskell compiler consisted of a giant Perl script full of regexes.

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For many years, an important stage of the GHC Haskell compiler consisted of a giant Perl script full of regexes.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse