Re: GRegex

["Marco Barisione" <marco barisione org>]

On 10/24/06, Marco Barisione <marco barisione org> wrote:
> As discussed some times ago [1] I propose to add a PCRE wrapper to GLib.
> Bug #50075 [2] contains a patch that adds it as a separate libgregex.
> The documentation of the new API is at [3] (yes, there are some
> unresolved problems with gtk-doc).
>
> Owen Taylor would prefer to have GRegex directly in the main GLib
> library:
> [...]

To give you an idea of the size of libgregex and libpcre, these are
the sizes of the stripped .so files on my computer:

libgregex with internal PCRE      138 KB
libgregex with system PCRE        24  KB
libpcre with Unicode support      125 KB
libpcre without Unicode support   96  KB

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Marco Barisione
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