> And Dennis said:
>
>> It is only when you have a pattern like '%_' when this is a problem
>> and we could detect this and do byte by byte when it's not. Now we
>> check (*p == '\\') || (*p == '_') in each iteration when we scan over
>> characters for '%', and we could do it once and have different loops
>> for the two cases.
>
> That's pretty much what the patch does now - It never tries to match a
> single byte when it sees "_", whether or not preceeded by "%".
My comment was about UTF-8 since I thought we were making a special
version for UTF-8. I don't know what properties other multibyte encodings
have.
/Dennis
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