Re: [bug-gnulib] upgrade the regex module

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 01:13:54AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
> > The new implementation, by Isamu Hasegawa from IBM Japan, has
> > been accepted to GNU libc several years ago.
> 
> Well, "several years" is a bit of an overstatement.  It was accepted
> in 2002.

:-)

> Initially there were some performance and correctness problems so I
> wanted to hold off on it.  My understanding is that some performance
> problems remain.

Yes, but OTOH as far as correctness with non-C locales is concerned, the
``new'' regex was significantly better from the beginning.  I belive that
the increased correctness overweights the remaining performance problems.

> [...] I've been meaning to look into it in my spare time.

If I have spare time, I may prepare a patch to speed things up.
Thank you very much for the answer.

Stepan Kasal