The new matcher (Was: Experiences with match() subexpressions?)

In article <67f8b7af$0$705$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
Aharon Robbins <arnold@freefriends.org> wrote:
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Mike Haertel is writing a new regexp matcher for gawk; it was announced
here some time agao: https://github.com/mikehaertel/minrx. The code is
in the feature/minrx branch of the gawk Git repository.

Just out of curiosity, does the new matcher address the issue raised by
Janis?

It sounds like you are implying that it does, but do not say so explicitly.

Again, just curiosity.  I remember when you announced the new matcher, and
it sounded interesting, but the presentation left me wondering the usual
question(s): Why should I care?  (Why should I get excited about this?)

Incidentally, I remember that the primary issue with the new matcher was
that it was written in C++.  It needs to be C-ified in order to be included
in a GAWK release version.

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