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[Gábor Kövesdán <gabor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm a student interested in this GSoC project. I already participated in 
GSoC several times, one of those involved porting the TRE regex engine 
to FreeBSD. I also worked on some optimizations for that. Since then 
I've started the PhD course in modeling and domain-specific languages, 
which made me more familiar with the theory of parsing and automata. I'm 
experienced in C and I can get along with C++. I'd like to ask what are 
the exact requirements of this project? Is it about plugging in an 
existing regexp engine into MariaDB, like RE2 or TRE? Or writing a new 
implementation? Could you please give me some pointers where to look at 
the code to see how regexes are used in MariaDB? Also, what other 
preliminary research should I do to write a good application?

Thanks in advance,
Gábor