efficient regex search in elisp?

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From: Zhiyong John Shen
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:40

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it seems that re-search-forward are not very efficient when i try to
search a large database (sorted), probably it uses linear search.  are
their any elisp codes floating around that does more efficient regex
searching?  maybe using binary search or something like that?  thanks
for any info.

--john

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