go-re2
Drop-in replacement for regexp using re2, for any Go app (by wasilibs)
regexcmp
A tool to compare different regexp libraries in Go (by karust)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
go-re2
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-re2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-26.
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Best regexp alternative for Go. Benchmarks. Plots.
go-re2 (1.3.0) - as simple as possible replaces the default regexp. Uses C++ re2 to improve performance when dealing with large inputs or complex expressions;
regexcmp
Posts with mentions or reviews of regexcmp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-26.
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Best regexp alternative for Go. Benchmarks. Plots.
To answer these questions, I wrote a small benchmarking program that can be used to compare different regex engines in terms of speed and memory usage. If you want to test it yourself or evaluate the correctness of the used methods, here is the code.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing go-re2 and regexcmp you can also consider the following projects:
go-pcre - Perl Compatible Regular Expression for Go
regexp2 - A full-featured regex engine in pure Go based on the .NET engine
gohs - GoLang Binding of HyperScan https://www.hyperscan.io/
regex-benchmark - It's just a simple regex benchmark of different programming languages.
go-yara - Go bindings for YARA
nottinygc - Higher-performance allocator for TinyGo WASI apps
rure-go - Go bindings to Rust's regex engine.