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     1.4 +Re2c is a free and open-source lexer generator for C and C++.
     1.5 +The main goal of the project is to generate very fast lexers that match or
     1.6 +exceed the speed of carefully optimized hand-written code. Instead of using
     1.7 +traditional table-driven approach, re2c encodes the underlying finite state
     1.8 +automata directly in the form of conditional jumps and applies numerous
     1.9 +optimizations to the generated code. The resulting programs are faster and
    1.10 +often smaller than their table-driven counterparts, and they are much easier
    1.11 +to debug and understand.
    1.12 +Re2c has an unusual flexible user interface: instead of assuming a fixed
    1.13 +program template, it leaves the definition of the interface code to the user
    1.14 +and allows to configure almost every aspect of the generated code. This gives
    1.15 +the users a lot of freedom in the way they bind the lexer to their particular
    1.16 +environment and allows them to decide on the optimal input model.
    1.17 +Re2c supports fast and lightweight submatch extraction which does not requre
    1.18 +the overhead on full parsing — a feature that is rarely found in the wild.
    1.19 +Re2c is used by many other projects (such as php, ninja, yasm, spamassassin,
    1.20 +BRL-CAD and wake) and aims at being fully backward compatible.
    1.21 +On the other hand, it is a research project and a playground for the
    1.22 +development of new algorithms in the field of formal grammars and automata.