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Intel Takes Open-Source Hyperscan Development To Proprietary Licensed Software
While Intel can be praised for their dozens (or likely by now, hundreds) of open-source projects they maintain and countless other existing open-source software projects they actively contribute to and are covered by Phoronix on a near-daily basis, not everything there is open-source
This is a high performance regular expression matching library optimized for Intel processors from Atom/embedded type systems all the way through Xeon Scalable. While Intel does immense good for the open-source and Linux ecosystems and have been doing so for many years, taking Hyperscan proprietary is a rather strange change of pace and hopefully isn't going to be part of any broader software trends at the company. Again, it's just a regular expression matching library (and one that performs best on Intel platforms already) that they now feel the need to make closed-source/proprietary and gated behind a sales rep after eight years as an open-source project...
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