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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Subject: Re: git diff looping?
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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 ;-)

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