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CppCon 2018: Hana Dusíková “Compile Time Regular Expressions”

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C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesCompilers, interpreters & program analysis

What it is

Hana Dusikova's CppCon 2018 talk presenting a C++ library that builds regular expressions from compile-time strings, using a C++20 feature. It avoids runtime parsing cost and covers implementation details, problems she hit, and benchmarks.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Pointed to as the canonical presentation of compile-time regex in C++ and its template metaprogramming, including benchmark results.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “A 54:47 presentation at CppCon 2018 is worth more than a thousand words”

    Presentation on compile-time regex class in C++ templates

    canucker2016, 2025-11 · Recommendation · in “The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming to Achieve It”

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Topics: c++, constexpr, regex, template metaprogramming, cppcon

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