Hello, On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 01:13:54AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Bug-m4 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-m4
