From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:06:25 GMT
Subject: Re: git log filtering
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702081905570.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070208061654.GA8813@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 01:53:18PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > What's PCRE performance like? I'd hate to make "git grep" slower, and it 
> > would be stupid and confusing to use two different regex libraries..
> >
> > Maybe somebody could test - afaik, PCRE has a regex-compatible (from a API 
> > standpoint, not from a regex standpoint!) wrapper thing, and it might be 
> > interesting to hear if doing "git grep" is slower or faster..
> 
> The patch is delightfully simple (though a real patch would probably be
> conditional):
>
> [...]

May I register a complaint? This is yet _another_ dependency.

Ciao,
Dscho