Re: regexp: does anyone really need ordered alternation?

2008-03-31 Fir de Conversatie Ian Young
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Antony Scriven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31/03/2008, Ian Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I did a couple informal benchmarks when I preparing for a short talk I gave at my school. The slides are at http://vim-soc

Re: Summer of Code: Regexp

2008-03-30 Fir de Conversatie Ian Young
Sorry to get back to you so late - here's what I can offer: As far as I'm aware, the code in the vim71-ian branch of the repository contains almost all of the stable work done by both myself and Xiaozhou, so that's the best place to look. There's a bunch of testing code in that branch as well,

Re: Summer of Code: Regexp

2008-03-30 Fir de Conversatie Ian Young
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Ian Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to get back to you so late - here's what I can offer: As far as I'm aware, the code in the vim71-ian branch of the repository contains almost all of the stable work done by both myself and Xiaozhou, so that's

Re: regexp: does anyone really need ordered alternation?

2008-03-30 Fir de Conversatie Ian Young
Here's another problem with changing behavior in the new engine: we would have to modify the backtracking engine as well to prevent it from using ordered alternation. Since our new engine can't handle certain things and falls back to the old one, they must behave the same. For example, we can't