[jira] [Updated] (HBASE-11907) Use the joni byte[] regex engine in place of j.u.regex in RegexStringComparator

["Andrew Purtell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11907?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Andrew Purtell updated HBASE-11907:
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    Summary: Use the joni byte[] regex engine in place of j.u.regex in RegexStringComparator  (was: Use the joni byte[] regex engine in place of j.u.regex)

> Use the joni byte[] regex engine in place of j.u.regex in RegexStringComparator
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>
>                 Key: HBASE-11907
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11907
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Andrew Purtell
>            Assignee: Andrew Purtell
>             Fix For: 2.0.0, 0.98.7, 0.99.1
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>         Attachments: HBASE-11907.patch, HBASE-11907.patch
>
>
> The joni regex engine (https://github.com/jruby/joni), a Java port of Oniguruma regexp library done by the JRuby project, is:
> - MIT licensed
> - Designed to work with byte[] arguments instead of String
> - Capable of handling UTF8 encoding
> - Regex syntax compatible
> - Interruptible
> - *About twice as fast as j.u.regex*
> - Has JRuby's jcodings library as a dependency, also MIT licensed



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