From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 03:45:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Very promising results with libpcre2
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In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX5mEMq2ZRKKc-5HxhauNRemPpN4P+wzmihO1YhZq_vJPg@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 ;-)