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Re: draft-beck-opes-irml-03.txt

2003-07-25 06:27:20

The Purple Streak, Hilarie Orman wrote:

The elements needed are regular expressions based on tokens;

While it would be very helpful to have regular expressions, parsing rules and handling of rules with regular expressions can be quite expensive wrt processing capacity required - an OPES processor with a large number of such rules could easily become a bottleneck...

It's a tradeoff between flexibility and performance.

-Markus


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