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The current version of Regex is 1.10.4.

1.3.1 (older version) Rating: Positive Thoroughness: Low Understanding: Medium

Approved without comment by gitlab.com/KonradBorowski on 2019-10-02

1.2.1 (older version) Rating: Positive Thoroughness: High Understanding: High

by BurntSushi on 2019-08-23

I wrote this crate, so this review is a reflection as a result of writing the code and then reviewing it again for this review.

I gave a rating of positive because the implementation in the regex crate has remain mostly unchanged for a long period of time, so it has matured and been battle tested. Moreover, the crate uses very little unsafe directly. The only uses are in the DFA regex engine for explicitly eliding bounds checks in very hot loops.

A better rating is likely deserved, but there are still a few outstanding bugs that can produce incorrect matches. In many cases, these bugs are a result of optimizations using literal searches, which can be subtle and difficult to get right.


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