<story><title>Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/BlingFire</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>switch2017</author><text>In 2008 when I was on the Bing team, Sergei had just developed this library and was putting it to work on the document understanding pipeline. He was incredibly passionate about it and would evangelize it with anybody that cared to listen. When I saw the headline on HN, I immediately guessed that this was Sergei&amp;#x27;s work. And of course it is! Sergei, if you are reading this, try to guess who I am ;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/BlingFire</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mgreenleaf</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been impressed with several of the Bing projects; I recently found that they open sourced the JIT compiler for C++ they use on Bing [1] I&amp;#x27;ve been more and more impressed with Microsoft&amp;#x27;s efforts in Open Source and elsewhere. Especially with these under the MIT license.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;BitFunnel&amp;#x2F;NativeJIT&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;BitFunnel&amp;#x2F;NativeJIT&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>