Re: [Haskell-cafe] performance question

On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 08:39 -0800, David Thomas wrote:

One way in which regexps are "foreign to Haskell-think" is that, if they break, they generally break at run-time. This could be ameliorated with template haskell

Care to elaborate on the "ameliorate using TH" part? I figure regexes would be mostly used to parse some runtime-provided string, so how could compile-TH provide any help? Nicolas