Monthly Archives: July 2011

New regex engine for nqp and nom, now passing 7K spectests

Posted on 2011/07/14 by pmichaud

Nom and nqp now have a new regular expression engine (currently known as “QRegex”) that I’ve implemented over the past week. As progress continued on the new “nom” branch of Rakudo since my last posting, it was becoming increasingly evident … Continue reading →

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More nom features and spectests, still 5x faster than master

Posted on 2011/07/02 by pmichaud

Progress continues on the nom branch of Rakudo. As of this writing we’re up to 89 spectest files and over 1000 passing spectests, which is a good improvement from just five days ago. We continue to see that nom performs … Continue reading →

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