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These libraries can also help with the
more mundane tasks that are otherwise absent from the main virtual machine, and which some virtual
machines for other platforms come fully equipped. By separating the various types of functionality from
the virtual machine, you are only obliged to include the libraries that your application requires, thus
keeping file sizes for distributed applications to a minimum.
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Chapter 11: Performing Server-Side Trickery
You ??™ ve already covered several of the Neko standard libraries, though you might not realize it. For
instance, XML and regular expression support are both provided by the regular expression C code found
in regexp.ndll . Now, although the Neko Virtual Machine requires that the regexp.ndll file be
included with your application for it to function, it is easily possible for your application to barely use
this library at all. On the other hand, the JavaScript and ActionScript 3 virtual machines come with the
regular expression support built in. Of course, not having the choice to include or exclude the regexp
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