From: Andreas Ericsson Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:16:34 GMT Subject: Re: git diff looping? Message-ID: <4A38ECB2.6010100@op5.se> In-Reply-To: <4A38EACD.3050602@gmail.com> Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> The glibc implementation is quite large. Cutting the library-specific >> cruft it still sits at about 10k LOC. >> >> Using PCRE is a no-go, as it uses perl-compatible regexes even for the >> posix-compatible API, as per pcreposix(3): > > I have a PCRE fork that has POSIX semantics (except the braindead > leftmost-longest *sub*expressions). It weighs 8kLOC, you can find it in > branch ssed of GNU sed's git repository. > Sounds neat. Do you by any chance have some performance measurements for it? If the work's already done and it provides a significant improvement I'm all for it ;-) -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.