From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Interpret :/ as a regular expression Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:09:40 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <20070613184109.GG10941@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20070613200011.GA17360@coredump.intra.peff.net> <4670F2BB.5060909@vilain.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: Sam Vilain X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 14 10:13:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HykS7-0008HH-TS for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:13:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754106AbXFNINI (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:13:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754091AbXFNINI (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:13:08 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48451 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753634AbXFNING (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:13:06 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2007 08:13:02 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO localhost) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 14 Jun 2007 10:13:02 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/CTJ5aRSzCyMdaxETcopoIV5u+tsnqawbRh+0tr/ v9iAVxdLV9eTzT X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <4670F2BB.5060909@vilain.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Sam Vilain wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > So no, I think pcre is just not worth it. > > A strange thing to conclude from your figures, which show pcre as the > fastest out of several libraries that you tested. The best of the worse. Yes. An external (!) program was 4x faster than pcre. I don't know how to make it more obvious that pcre sucks. Hth, Dscho