It wouldn't be that surprising. You put together custom regex-processing silicon (eg: what Tarari used to make) and related hardware (eg: entropy calculators,

It wouldn't be that surprising. You put together custom regex-processing silicon (eg: what Tarari used to make) and related hardware (eg: entropy calculators, that kind of thing) and mix in various types of content-addressed memory and you could get some nutty performance #s on specialized tasks like what's discussed there.