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It was explored but decided against, at least for now https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18653 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18653

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  Wrapping RE2 with a fallback to the existing engine to try to maintain compatibility was explored; that, like the timeout approach, is pretty clearly a stopgap measure; actually implementing an RE2-style algorithm without the compatibility and toolchain warts of RE2 for Ruby's existing code and functionality is a bigger but more permanent solution, that I don't think has really been ruled out of explored.
  • riffraff 5y ago
    if you break compatibility you might as well just use some re2 bindings[0] [0] https://github.com/mudge/re2 https://github.com/mudge/re2