Geoff, for me it's real honor that you, well-known creator of Hyperscan, paid attention to what we are doing. We truly respect all the prior work in this field (Hyperscan, RE2, Rust, etc), so different benchmarks will be available.

However, we all need to keep in mind that Nevod operates on words, not characters, and Nevod targets large rule decks (1000-100000 patterns). So, we don't compete in the field of individual pattern matching or streaming matching (to some extent, goals of Hyperscan and Nevod are different). In other words, a lot of things depend on target goals, which usually are reflected in the kind of patterns and in their number.

Regarding patent. Sorry, for legal reasons I can't expose details at the moment.

Thank you for your valuable comments.