From: helly Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:16:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: - Update homepage X-Git-Tag: 0.13.6~549 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=11b94d94285b9af979de8aac93b81306f7019d43;p=re2c - Update homepage --- diff --git a/htdocs/index.html b/htdocs/index.html index 87c3dfb1..bf97141e 100755 --- a/htdocs/index.html +++ b/htdocs/index.html @@ -2,12 +2,27 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> - + re2c Home

re2c

+re2c is a tool for writing very fast and very flexible scanners. Unlike +any other such tool, re2c focuses on generating high efficient code for +regular expression matching. As a result this allows a much broader range of +use than any traditional lexer offers. And Last but not least re2c +generates warning free code that is equal to hand-written code in terms of +size, speed and quality. +

+The above made the PHP team to use re2c in +various places. +

+Marcus BÃ¶rger (helly@users.sourceforge.net) +

re2c is a great tool and was unmaintained for quite some time, and in fact didn't even compile with newer versions of gcc. I've used re2c in a few of my projects (e.g. OpenWBEM), and I have an interest in lexers (I wrote a