coregex Roadmap - What's Next?

This discussion outlines our development priorities and upcoming features. We'd love to hear your feedback!

Recently Completed (v0.7.0)

• OnePass DFA - 10x faster capture group extraction
• ReverseSuffix - 1000x+ speedup for suffix patterns
• Named Capture Groups - (?P<name>pattern) support
• Reverse Search - Three strategies for anchored patterns
• SIMD Prefilters - AVX2/SSSE3 accelerated filtering

Coming Soon (v0.8.0)

• ReverseInner Strategy - Bidirectional search for inner literals

  • Pattern: prefix.*keyword.*suffix
  • Find keyword first, verify both directions
  • Expected: 10-100x for complex patterns

• ARM NEON SIMD - Native ARM64 acceleration

  • memchr, memmem, Teddy for Apple Silicon
  • AWS Graviton optimization

Future Ideas

• Aho-Corasick Integration - Multi-pattern matching
• UTF-8 Automata - Direct UTF-8 state machine
• Go Native SIMD - When golang/go#73787 stabilizes

Request a Feature

Have an idea? Share it in the comments!

What patterns are slow for you? Share your use cases and we'll prioritize accordingly.

How We Prioritize

1. User requests - Real-world needs come first
2. Performance impact - Biggest wins for common patterns
3. Ecosystem parity - Match RE2/rust-regex capabilities
4. Maintainability - Keep the codebase clean

This roadmap is updated with each release.