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| -rw-r--r-- | devel/re2/pkg-descr | 7 |
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diff --git a/devel/re2/pkg-descr b/devel/re2/pkg-descr index e231f4f55b25..0f4e3b84860f 100644 --- a/devel/re2/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/re2/pkg-descr @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ RE2 is a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular -expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python. -It is a C++ library. -RE2 uses automata theory to guarantee that regular expression searches run in +expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python. It is a C++ +library. + +RE2 uses automata theory to guarantee that regular expression searches run in time linear in the size of the input. RE2 implements memory limits, so that searches can be constrained to a fixed amount of memory. RE2 is engineered to use a small fixed C++ stack footprint no matter what inputs or regular |