[darcs-users] Regular Expression libraries and linker errors

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Max Battcher writes:

 > environments...) I would think that boring files change rarely enough 
 > that I am curious if this would be something worth investigating.

I can't imagine it would be worth the complexity of serializing the
representation of compiled regexps and the risk in exposing their
internals to the world.  It doesn't actually take that long to compile
regexps, anyway.