Why nginx's http parser doesnt use regular expressions?

Valentin V. Bartenev vbart at nginx.com
Tue Jun 25 11:05:43 UTC 2013


On Tuesday 25 June 2013 08:11:54 anshuk kumar wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I have another question, was any state machine generators like ragel used
> to code this or this is completely hand written?
> 
[..]

It's all written by hand. We don't use generators.

  wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev



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