> not completely obvious to me .. worth measuring. I concur. > lightgrep and icgrep These are great tips for a "related work" section, but nothing like prior

> not completely obvious to me .. worth measuring. I concur. > lightgrep and icgrep These are great tips for a "related work" section, but nothing like prior art as it turns out. So yes, relevant and appreciated. > UTF-8 automata .. lazy DFA matching I wouldn't expect RuneSet to be useful for any automata-based regex pattern matching approach, there's not a good way to incorporate the context switch, among other considerations, and while it's fast, I will be surprised (very pleased, but surprised) if it's faster. It's designed as a component of an LPeg style parsing machine, where it can be added inline and treated as an unusually large instruction. I haven't done more than time its test suite, which has shown that it's fast enough for the intended use, and that optimization time is best put into other parts of the design for now.