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Performance	Constructing Fast Lexical Analyzers with RE/flex - Why Another Scanner Generator? 25 Apr 2017 Updated: 30 Apr 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.66 Licence: BSD Views: 52,195 Bookmarked: 49 Downloaded: 472 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. RE/flex for C++
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Python	Fast String Matching with Wildcards, Globs, and Gitignore-Style Globs - How Not to Blow it Up 5 Aug 2019 Updated: 22 Jul 2023 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 44 Popularity: 8.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 41,439 Bookmarked: 59 Downloaded: 1,295 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Classic globbing and modern gitignore-style globbing algorithms can be fast, whereas recursive implementations are known to blow up exponentially; why some freely available source code should not be used.