[non-issue] What's Omega matcher engine?

[Ray-Eldath]

I am a big fan of comby, it save me from many tedious regex search and replace! I saw there's a -omega Use Omega matcher engine. argument on the command line but no further explanation anywhere. Just want to ask what is omega matcher engine? and is that engine better than the default one? thank you!

I post this question as an issue here (not in Gitter) is because I guess someone may have the same question as me, so this won't get asked and answered repeatedly.

[rvantonder]

It's a rewrite of the matcher engine with a different library dependency.

is that engine better than the default one?

Don't know 😅 At some point it might be. I don't think it has feature parity yet and could be slower or faster, I haven't tested thoroughly.

Feel free to reopen if this doesn't answer your question.