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Maybe a slightly faster std::regex or whatever it's called; apparently it's horrendously slow for no benefit.
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The primary reason this hasn't happened is that it'd break C++'s de facto stable ABI (even though officially there's no such thing). For a lot more context, see https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p20... and https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p18....

Spoiler alert: The option described as "the sort of leadership failing that I pray we can avoid" is what ended up happening.

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Ranges need work as well, there’s lot of opportunity to improve things there.
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