We are somewhat in amateur hour here. It is well understood that literal matching is easier at scale than regex matching, and some of us have built regex matche

We are somewhat in amateur hour here. It is well understood that literal matching is easier at scale than regex matching, and some of us have built regex matchers that take advantage of this whether they are given a pure literal case or where regexes have literal factors: https://github.com/intel/hyperscan https://github.com/intel/hyperscan being a project I've worked on for a little while.