# FIRE Suite - Regular Expressions benchmark Suite
#
# http://istlab.dmst.aueb.gr/~bkarak/programs/fire/index.html
#
# Vassilios Karakoidas (bkarak@aueb.gr) - http://istlab.dmst.aueb.gr/~bkarak/
# Diomidis Spinellis   (dds@aueb.gr)    - http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/
#
# $Id: README,v 1.2 2004/10/09 06:26:43 cvsuser Exp $

Regular Expression suite is an application written in 100% Java. It was implemented to test FIRE (Fast Implementation
of Regular Expressions) execution speed and compatibility with other Regular Expressions Engines in Java.

It has a modular design in order to easily add new regular expression engines for testing. For the time being it supports
the following libraries:

SUN1.4         - Java Sun Regular Expression library (java.util.regex) 1.4.x, http://java.sun.com/
AUTOMATON      - Automaton Regular Expression library (dk.brics.automaton), http://www.brics.dk/~amoeller/automaton/
JAKARTA-REGEXP - Jakarta Regular Expression library, http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/index.html
JAKARTA-ORO    - Jakarta ORO PERL5 Compatible Regular Expression Library, http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html
GNU-REGEXP     - GNU Regular Expressions Library, http://www.cacas.org/java/gnu/regexp/

This distribution provides the binaries for these libraries in the directory lib.

To execute a benchmark execute the command:

java -jar fire-benchmark HTML test/benchmark.xml output.html