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> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:05:32 -0700 > From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl AT lucon DOT org> > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:59:32AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > > The regex.c that came with GDB 4.18, which I think is the one that got > > spread around widely, had a bug in its implementation of the POSIX > > regcomp/regexec interface, which caused a major performance hit. That > > bug has been fixed in GNU libc for a long time. When I replaced > > fixincludes' copy of regex.c with a more recent version from glibc, > > fixincludes was sped up by a factor of nine. That same bug affects > > Sed 3.02 - replace the regex.c it ships with with the one from glibc > > 2.2.x and I bet you'll see better performance. > > > > I have been telling people that you should use regex.c in glibc if > all possible if you are using gnu-regex. Every package which uses > gnu-regex should have a configuration option not to use the included > gnu-regex. Sed does have such an option (I used it to build the binary with Spencer's regex which is the standard regex included in the DJGPP library). -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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