Shootout precedent (was: Announcing regex-tre-0.66 and benchmarks)

Chris Kuklewicz writes:

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// (On Debian: apt-get install libboost-regex-dev before compiling, // and then "g++ -O3 -lboost_regex regexdna.cc -o regexdna // Gentoo seems to package boost as, well, 'boost')

Which is a strange precedent.

Hmm.. I have a version of KNucleotide that uses a compressed index from a C library, and which I think beat all other entries by a healthy margin. I dismissed this, since it is using non-standard libraries, but perhaps it is allowed after all? -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants