Before getting started, I’ll introduce myself. My name is Richard Lee, and I’m a developer intern on the BCL for the summer. I’ve only been here for a few weeks, but it’s been great working here. The people, the environment, and...

The .NET Framework’s regular expression implementation is a traditional Nondeterministic Finite Automaton (NFA) engine. Perhaps the most significant feature of NFA engines is that they place the responsibility for crafting efficient, high-performance...