[Gnu-arch-users] [bug] Rx does not handle cut operator efficiently

[Aaron Bentley]

Tom Lord wrote:
> The cut operator can work with just a simple DFA translation of a
> regexp -- and Rx supports that internally -- but it appears that 
> the test for whether or not that optimization applies within the posix
> entry points doesn't know about `cut'.   It's as if you had asked for
> a full set of `regmatch_t' values --- Rx is doing lots of backtracking
> work on every match.

I'm just buggooing this so we don't forget about it.

Aaron