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Re: ACL's and precompiled regular expressions
>
> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>
> > It looks like we could do some sigficant optimization of the
> > ACL code by precompiling the regular expressions whenever
> > possible.
> >
> > Anyone interested in toying with?
>
> Sure, I'd like to try, since I've spent all this time tracking down
> problems with it.
Any possibility of using PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)
ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/pcre/
Apparently, Python 1.5 upwards uses it as its regex engine
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Yusuf Goolamabbas
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