Rename to be distinct from the original functions and thus not as sub…

…tle to later authors where used

regexp/regexp.go

@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"runtime"
 	"sync"
-	"time"
 	"unsafe"
 )
 
-// Caches regexp compilation to avoid CPU and RAM usage for many duplicate regexps
-
-const defaultTTL = 2 * time.Minute
+// "Interns" compilation of Regular Expressions.  If two regexs with the same pattern are compiled, the result
+// is the same *regexp.Regexp.  This avoids the compilation cost but more importantly the memory usage.
+//
+// Regexps produced from this package are backed by a form of weak-valued map, upon a regex becoming
+// unreachable, they will be eventually removed from the map and memory reclaimed.
 
 var (
 	weakMap      = make(map[string]uintptr)
@@ -20,19 +21,19 @@ var (
 	l            sync.RWMutex
 )
 
-func Compile(pattern string) (*regexp.Regexp, error) {
+func CompileInterned(pattern string) (*regexp.Regexp, error) {
 	return compile(pattern, regexp.Compile, weakMap)
 }
 
-func CompilePOSIX(pattern string) (*regexp.Regexp, error) {
+func CompilePOSIXInterned(pattern string) (*regexp.Regexp, error) {
 	return compile(pattern, regexp.CompilePOSIX, posixWeakMap)
 }
 
-func MustCompile(pattern string) *regexp.Regexp {
+func MustCompileInterned(pattern string) *regexp.Regexp {
 	return mustCompile(pattern, regexp.MustCompile, weakMap)
 }
 
-func MustCompilePOSIX(pattern string) *regexp.Regexp {
+func MustCompilePOSIXInterned(pattern string) *regexp.Regexp {
 	return mustCompile(pattern, regexp.MustCompilePOSIX, posixWeakMap)
 }
 

regexp/regexp_test.go

@@ -6,20 +6,37 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
-func TestRegexpCompilation(t *testing.T) {
+func TestInterenedRegexps(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Run("must", func(t *testing.T) {
-		testMust(t, regexp.MustCompile, MustCompile)
+		testMust(t, regexp.MustCompile, MustCompileInterned)
 	})
 	t.Run("must-posix", func(t *testing.T) {
-		testMust(t, regexp.MustCompilePOSIX, MustCompilePOSIX)
+		testMust(t, regexp.MustCompilePOSIX, MustCompilePOSIXInterned)
 	})
 	t.Run("errorable", func(t *testing.T) {
-		test(t, regexp.Compile, Compile)
+		test(t, regexp.Compile, CompileInterned)
 	})
 	t.Run("errorable-posix", func(t *testing.T) {
-		test(t, regexp.CompilePOSIX, CompilePOSIX)
+		test(t, regexp.CompilePOSIX, CompilePOSIXInterned)
 	})
-	// Unfortunately, GC behavior is untestably flaky
+	// Check errors
+	_, err := CompileInterned("(")
+	require.Error(t, err)
+
+	// Unfortunately, GC behavior is non-deterministic, this section of code works, but not reliably:
+	/*
+			ptr1 := reflect.ValueOf(r1).Pointer()
+			r1 = nil
+			r2 = nil
+			runtime.GC()
+			runtime.GC()
+			r2, err = MustCompile(".*")
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			ptr2 := reflect.ValueOf(r2).Pointer()
+		    // If GC occurred, this will be a brand new pointer as the regex was removed from maps
+			require.True(t, ptr1 != ptr2)
+
+	*/
 }
 
 func test(t *testing.T, compile, cachedCompile func(string) (*regexp.Regexp, error)) {