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[Tiger Compiler](https://assignments.lrde.epita.fr/tools/reflex.html).
2. The RE/flex C++ regex engines are used by [ugrep](https://ugrep.com).

The RE/flex lexical analyzer generator accepts Flex lexer specifications and
seamlessly integrates with Bison parsers. RE/flex is faster than Flex and much
faster than regex libraries such as Boost.Regex, C++11 std::regex, PCRE2 and
RE2. For example, tokenizing a 2 KB representative C source code file into 244
tokens takes only 8.7 microseconds:
The RE/flex lexical analyzer generator extends Flex++ with Unicode support,
indent/dedent anchors, lazy quantifiers, word boundaries, functions for lex and
syntax error reporting and other new features. RE/flex is faster than Flex and
much faster than regex libraries such as Boost.Regex, C++11 std::regex, PCRE2
and RE2. For example, tokenizing a 2 KB representative C source code file into
244 tokens takes only 8.7 microseconds:

<table>
<tr><th>Command / Function</th><th>Software</th><th>Time (μs)</th></tr>
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