[Chicken-users] irregex merged

[felix winkelmann]

Hello!


I have merged the "irregular" branch into trunk, so PCRE has now been
replaced with Alex' "irregex" regular expression package. That means,
SREs are now supported.

I noticed that regex-compilation into internal representation is relatively
slow, so precompiling the regexes is quite important in those cases, i.e.

(define (foo ...)
  ... (string-match "regex" ...) ...)

should be replaced with

(define foo
  (let ((rx (regexp "regex")))
    (lambda ...