On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 04:28, J?r?mie Courr?ges-Anglas wrote: > Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> writes: > >> For simple patterns, grep has an optimization to avoid regex and run >> about 50% faster. The problem is its idea of simple patterns is too >> simple. > > IIUC the idea is to optimize for a lazy user that didn't want to > type grep -F or fgrep:
More or less. Note that it does support . wildcards unlike -F. I also have scripts that run grep where it would be annoying to get -F to grep when necessary. > The following diff also tests for ']', ')' and '}' so that unbalanced > use of those can be catched by regcomp if the latter happens to become > stricter. > > Regress passes; does it seem OK? I think that's a good improvement.
