On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:44:26PM -0700, Robert Menschel wrote: > Indeed, it's not uncommon for a rule or ruleset to be checked 2-3 > times with knowingly excessive regexes, so we can see what actually is > or isn't being matched in various regex hits. We use this information > to improve the rule, and then remove the excess to the regex for a > final pre-publication run.
When more of the committers were actually writing rules, we'd do the same thing, we'd commit some giant number of rules (up to 20, for example) and wait till the next day when the results came back. Sure, it's a lot nicer to be closer to real time! -- Duncan Findlay
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