On: Giving C++ std:regex a C makeover

[dwattttt]

That just pushes the task of optimising the workload up to you, complete with opportunities to forget about it & do it badly.

I don't relish the idea of splitting sections of a file up into N chunks and running N grep's in parallel, and would much rather that kind of "smarts" to be in the grep tool

[whiterknight → dwattttt]

It has no choice but to read file data in chunks or exhaust memory.

If you need to do n parallel searches what better arrangement do you propose?

[dwattttt → whiterknight]

I propose the search tool decide how to split up the region I want searched, rather than me trying to compose simpler tools to try to achieve the same result.