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duaneb
9y ago
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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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teraflop
9y ago
For many years, an important stage of the GHC Haskell compiler consisted of a giant Perl script full of regexes.
http://code.haskell.org/ghc-scp/ghc/docs/comm/the-beast/mang...
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