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Re: Very promising results with libpcre2

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Apr 2, 2017, 03:45 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
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> I am very tempted though to support them in parallel, if only for ease
> of performance testing and to be able to roll out support for
> grep.patternType=perl meaning pcre1 for now, but add a
> grep.patternType=pcre2 for testing (and make grep.patternType=pcre1
> work, with grep.patternType=pcre being synonymous with
> grep.patternType=perl, i.e. whatever the default is).

Perhaps. As long as the code doesn't get too ugly, I think we would survive ;-)

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