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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update
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Ben Finney |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update |
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Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:43:21 +1100 |
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On 06-Feb-2005, Tom Lord wrote:
> There are (at most) three regexp engines in the free software world
> with anywhere near enough performance to work for `inventory'. Of
> those, only 1 is in a free version of libc (and, of the three, with
> considerable respect for its author, i must note that it is the one I
> think most likely to have performance problems for uses within arch
> but outside of `inventory' itself).
>
> In other words, the decision to use the system regex is pragmatically
> equivalent to the decision to rely on GNU libc.
Is your objection based on libc's regex engine, or on other aspects of
libc?
If the dependency was on a separate-from-libc version of GNU's regex
library, would that be satisfactory?
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- [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update, Thomas Lord, 2005/02/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update, Ben Finney, 2005/02/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update, Tom Lord, 2005/02/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update, Ben Finney, 2005/02/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update, Robert Collins, 2005/02/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update, Tom Lord, 2005/02/06
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update, John A Meinel, 2005/02/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update, Tom Lord, 2005/02/09
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update, Miles Bader, 2005/02/06
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